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PART IN.I.SECURITY OF TENURE FOR BUSINESS, PROFESSIONAL AND CERTAIN OTHER TENANTS

N.I.Application to the Lands Tribunal for new tenancies

21Compensation for misrepresentation, etc., or landlord's failure to fulfil intentions.N.I.

(1)Where under this Part the Lands Tribunal refuses an order for the grant of a new tenancy, and it is subsequently made to appear to the Lands Tribunal that the Lands Tribunal was induced to refuse the grant by misrepresentation or by the concealment of material facts or that the intentions of the landlord as represented by him to the Lands Tribunal regarding any of the matters specified in section 10(1)( e)( f) or ( g) have not without reasonable excuse been fulfilled, the Lands Tribunal may order the landlord to pay to the tenant such sum as appears sufficient as compensation for damage or loss sustained by the tenant as the result of the refusal and any such order shall be enforceable as if it were an order made by a county court which had jurisdiction to make such an order.

(2)In subsection (1) the expression “the landlord” means the person opposing an application for the grant of a new tenancy, and the expression “the tenant” means the person to whom the grant of a new tenancy was refused.