Part 2Leasehold reform

Chapter 4Leasehold houses

Purchase price

I1145 Tenant’s share of marriage value

1

Section 9 of the 1967 Act (purchase price etc.) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1C) (purchase price payable where the right to acquire freehold arises by virtue of section 1A, 1AA or 1B), omit paragraph (a) (tenant’s share of marriage value not to exceed one-half).

3

After that subsection insert—

1D

Where, in determining the price payable for a house and premises in accordance with this section, there falls to be taken into account any marriage value arising by virtue of the coalescence of the freehold and leasehold interests, the share of the marriage value to which the tenant is to be regarded as being entitled shall be one-half of it.