PART 10

Agricultural holdings
CHAPTER 11

Irritancy for non-payment of rent

Irritancy for non-payment of rent
123
1
The 2003 Act is amended as follows.
2
In section 18 (irritancy of lease and good husbandry), after subsection (2) insert—
2A
Where such a lease may be irritated on the grounds that the rent is due and unpaid, notice as mentioned in subsection (7) may not be given unless—
a
the landlord has given the tenant a demand in writing requiring the tenant to pay the rent due before the expiry of the period of 2 months beginning with the date of the demand, and
b
the demand has not been complied with.
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S. 123 in force at 23.12.2016 by S.S.I. 2016/365, reg. 2, sch. (with regs. 3-15)