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Section 37: Application by majority of parties for variation of leases.

Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 · 1987 c. 31View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IV: Variation of Leases

Subject to the following provisions of this section, an application may be made to the appropriate tribunal in respect of two or more leases for an order varying each of those leases in such manner as is specified in the application.

Those leases must be long leases of flats under which the landlord is the same person, but they need not be leases of flats which are in the same building, nor leases which are drafted in identical terms.

The grounds on which an application may be made under this section are that the object to be achieved by the variation cannot be satisfactorily achieved unless all the leases are varied to the same effect.

An application under this section in respect of any leases may be made by the landlord or any of the tenants under the leases.

Any such application shall only be made if—

in a case where the application is in respect of less than nine leases, all, or all but one, of the parties concerned consent to it; or
in a case where the application is in respect of more than eight leases, it is not opposed for any reason by more than 10 per cent. of the total number of the parties concerned and at least 75 per cent. of that number consent to it.

For the purposes of subsection (5)—

in the case of each lease in respect of which the application is made, the tenant under the lease shall constitute one of the parties concerned (so that in determining the total number of the parties concerned a person who is the tenant under a number of such leases shall be regarded as constituting a corresponding number of the parties concerned); and
the landlord shall also constitute one of the parties concerned.

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