Section 64: Tenancies terminable after death or marriage.

Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 · 1993 c. 28View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: LANDLORD AND TENANT — Chapter III: ENFRANCHISEMENT UNDER LEASEHOLD REFORM ACT 1967

The following section shall be inserted in the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 after the section 1A inserted by section 63 above—

In section 3(1) of that Act (meaning of "long tenancy")—

after "and includes" there shall be inserted ; and" both a tenancy taking effect under section 149(6) of the Law of Property Act 1925 (leases terminable after a death or marriage) and "
in the proviso (which prevents certain categories of tenancies terminable after death or marriage being long tenancies), for the words from "if either" onwards there shall be substitutedif— athe notice is capable of being given at any time after the death or marriage of the tenant;bthe length of the notice is not more than three months; andcthe terms of the tenancy preclude both—iits assignment otherwise than by virtue of section 92 of the Housing Act 1985 (assignments by way of exchange), andiithe sub-letting of the whole of the premises comprised in it.

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