294.Paragraph 23 is an anti-avoidance provision which treats successive leases of the same premises between the same parties (or are otherwise linked transactions) as one lease for the purposes of the Act. The successive linked leases are treated as being granted at the time of the grant of the first lease in the series, for a term equal to the aggregate of the terms of all the leases and in consideration of the rent payable under all the leases.
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