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Part 1Conversion of long lease to ownership

Consequences of conversion

7Creation of servitudes on conversion

(1)This section applies where a right of ownership in land is created by the conversion of a qualifying lease under section 4(1)(a) (such land being referred to in this section as “the converted land”).

(2)The converted land includes or (as the case may be) is subject to any servitudes which would have been created (whether expressly, by implication or by positive prescription) had the original grant of—

(a)the qualifying lease,

(b)any superior lease, or

(c)any partial assignation of a lease, where the subjects of that lease include the land which forms the subjects of the qualifying lease,

been a conveyance of land.