Landlord and Tenant Act

The Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (Part 2) gives business tenants some important legal protection.

The Act retained selected rights and obligations contained in Part IV of the previous Landlord and Tenant Act.

It is suggested that the court would not order a new lease to contain a contractual option to renew, since the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 itself contains the code for enabling tenants to renew their leases.

He also accused it of promoting policies that he said were the main cause of instability in the past - namely support for the 1997 constitution and the Agricultural Landlords and Tenants Act, both of which Qarase has attempted, without success, to substantially amend.

Whilst pursuant to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1988 the burden is now on the landlord to show that it acted reasonably in withholding consent or in imposing conditions upon its consent, the landlord is entitled to require references, accounts and other relevant financial information.

He entered the cabinet on August 20, 1982, having been appointed Minister of Housing, with responsibility for the Landlord and Tenant Act, the Residential Rent Corporation Act, the Housing and Renewal Corporation Act and the Infirm Persons' Housing Act.

Under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1948, tenants of agricultural land, and under the Landlord and Tenant Acts 1927 and 1954, other lessees, are entitled to claim compensation from their landlords for many improvements made by them, and also, in some cases, compensation for the disturbance by reason of notices to quit.