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42 Service charge contributions to be held in trust.E+W

(1)This section applies where the tenants of two or more dwellings may be required under the terms of their leases to contribute to the same costs [F1, or the tenant of a dwelling may be required under the terms of his lease to contribute to costs to which no other tenant of a dwelling may be required to contribute,] by the payment of service charges; and in this section—

  • the contributing tenants” means those tenants; [F2and “the sole contributing tenant” means that tenant;]

  • the payee” means the landlord or other person to whom any such charges are payable by those tenants [F3, or that tenant, under the terms of their leases, or his lease];

  • relevant service charges” means any such charges;

  • service charge” has the meaning given by section 18(1) of the 1985 Act, except that it does not include a service charge payable by the tenant of a dwelling the rent of which is registered under Part IV of the M1Rent Act 1977, unless the amount registered is, in pursuance of section 71(4) of that Act, entered as a variable amount;

  • tenant” does not include a tenant of an exempt landlord; and

  • trust fund” means the fund, or (as the case may be) any of the funds, mentioned in subsection (2) below.

(2)Any sums paid to the payee by the contributing tenants [F4, or the sole contributing tenant,] by way of relevant service charges, and any investments representing those sums, shall (together with any income accruing thereon) be held by the payee either as a single fund or, if he thinks fit, in two or more separate funds.

(3)The payee shall hold any trust fund—

(a)on trust to defray costs incurred in connection with the matters for which the relevant service charges were payable (whether incurred by himself or by any other person), and

(b)subject to that, on trust for the persons who are the contributing tenants for the time being [F5, or the person who is the sole contributing tenant for the time being.]

(4)Subject to subsections (6) to (8), the contributing tenants shall be treated as entitled by virtue of subsection (3)(b) to such shares in the residue of any such fund as are proportionate to their respective liabilities to pay relevant service charges [F6or the sole contributing tenant shall be treated as so entitled to the residue of any such fund.]

(5)If the Secretary of State by order so provides, any sums standing to the credit of any trust fund may, instead of being invested in any other manner authorised by law, be invested in such manner as may be specified in the order; and any such order may contain such incidental, supplemental or transitional provisions as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in connection with the order.

(6)On the termination of the lease of [F7any of the contributing tenants] the tenant shall not be entitled to any part of any trust fund, and (except where subsection (7) applies) any part of any such fund which is attributable to relevant service charges paid under the lease shall accordingly continue to be held on the trusts referred to in subsection (3).

(7)[F8On the termination of the lease of the last of the contributing tenants, or of the lease of the sole contributing tenant,] any trust fund shall be dissolved as at the date of the termination of the lease, and any assets comprised in the fund immediately before its dissolution shall—

(a)if the payee is the landlord, be retained by him for his own use and benefit, and

(b)in any other case, be transferred to the landlord by the payee.

(8)Subsections (4), (6) and (7) shall have effect in relation to [F9any of the contributing tenants, or the sole contributing tenant,] subject to any express terms of his lease [F10(whenever it was granted)] which relate to the distribution, either before or (as the case may be) at the termination of the lease, of amounts attributable to relevant service charges paid under its terms (whether the lease was granted before or after the commencement of this section).

(9)Subject to subsection (8), the provisions of this section shall prevail over the terms of any express or implied trust created by a lease so far as inconsistent with those provisions, other than an express trust so created [F11, in the case of a lease of any of the contributing tenants,] before the commencement of this section [F12or, in the case of the lease of the sole contributing tenant, before the commencement of paragraph 15 of Schedule 10 to the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002.]

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