Landlord and Tenant Act 1987

Exception for tenants of certain public authoritiesE+W

9(1)Paragraphs 2 to 8 do not apply to a tenant of—E+W

  • a local authority,

  • a new town corporation, or

  • the Development Board for Rural Wales,

unless the tenancy is a long tenancy, in which case paragraphs 2 to 5 and 7 and 8 apply but paragraph 6 does not.

(2)Subsections (2) and (3) of section 26 shall apply for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) as they apply for the purposes of subsection (1) of that section.