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            An Act to amend Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954; to provide for the closing of the Yorkshire deeds registries; to amend the law relating to dispositions of estates and interests in land and to land charges; to make further provision as to the powers of the Lands Tribunal and court in relation to restrictive covenants affecting land; and for purposes connected with those matters.</dc:description><dc:date>1972-12-31</dc:date><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2015-09-08</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2004-07-22</dct:valid>
					
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          <Strong>Part I</Strong>
        </Number><Title> Amendment of Part II of <CommentaryRef Ref="c13534"/>Landlord and Tenant Act 1954</Title><Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/59/part/I/crossheading/miscellaneous" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/59/part/I/crossheading/miscellaneous" NumberOfProvisions="8" id="part-I-crossheading-miscellaneous"><Title> Miscellaneous</Title><P1group><Title> Duration of short tenancies excluded from Part II of Act of 1954.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/59/section/12" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/59/section/12" id="section-12"><Pnumber>12</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/59/section/12/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/59/section/12/1" id="section-12-1"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="c13545"/>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>In section 43(3) of the Act of 1954 (exclusion of certain tenancies granted for not more than three months) for the words “three months”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “six months” and for the words “six months” (in paragraph (b)) the words “twelve months”.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/59/section/12/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/59/section/12/2" id="section-12-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to tenancies granted before the commencement of this Act.</Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Pblock></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c13545" Type="X"><Para><Text>The text of ss. 1–12(1), 13 and 14 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c13534" Type="M"><Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1954/56" id="c00008" Year="1954" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="56">1954 c. 56</Citation>.</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>