Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (c. 56)

Part I E+W Security of Tenure for Residential Tenants

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. I (ss. 1–22) superseded in part by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 75:1), s. 186(1)

C2 Pt. I (ss. 1–22) applied by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 75:1), s. 186, Sch. 10 paras. 21(2), 22

C3 Pt. I (ss. 1–22) modified by S.I. 1990/776, arts. 2(2), (5)(2)(f)

C4 Pt. I amended by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51), Sch. 8 paras. 9, 10

Provisions as to possession on termination of long tenancy E+W

12 Grounds for resumption of possession by landlord. E+W

(1) The grounds on which a landlord may apply to the court for possession of the property comprised in a tenancy to which section one of this Act applies are the following:—

(a) that for purposes of redevelopment after the termination of the tenancy the landlord proposes to demolish or reconstruct the whole or a substantial part of the relevant premises;

(b) the grounds specified in the Third Schedule to this Act (which correspond, subject to the necessary modifications, to the [F1 [F2 Cases 1 to 9 in Schedule 15] to the Rent Act which specify circumstances in which a court may make an order for possession under that Act]).

(2) In this section the expression “the relevant premises” means—

(a) as respects any time after the term date, the premises of which, [F3 if the tenancy were not one at a low rent], the tenant would have been entitled to retain possession by virtue of the [F1 Rent Act] after the coming to an end of the tenancy at the term date;

(b) as respects any time before the term date, the premises agreed between the landlord and the tenant or determined by the court to be likely to be the premises of which, [F3 if the tenancy were not one at a low rent], the tenant would be entitled to retain possession as aforesaid.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Rent Act 1968 (c. 23), Sch. 15 (continued by Rent Act 1977 (c. 42), Sch. 24 para. 30)

F2 Words substituted by Rent Act 1977 (c. 42), s. 155(2), Sch. 23 para. 15

F3 Words restored by Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (c. 88), s. 39(2), Sch. 5 para. 2(c)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C5 S. 12(1)(a) modified by Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (c. 88), ss. 35(4)(a), 38(1)