198(1)
Subsection (2) applies where—
(a) a landlord (having given a contract-holder a notice under a landlord's break clause) has made a possession claim on the ground in section 199, and
(b) the court has refused to make an order for possession because it considered the claim to be a retaliatory claim (see section 217).
198(2)
The landlord may not give another notice under a landlord's break clause to the contract-holder before the end of the period of six months starting with the day on which the court refused to make an order for possession.
198(3)
This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all fixed term standard contracts with a landlord's break clause.