Section 7: Settlement of terms of statutory tenancy.

Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 · 1954 c. 56View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: Security of Tenure for Residential Tenants

The . . . terms on which the tenant and any successor to his statutory tenancy may retain possession of the dwelling-house during that period, other than the amount of the rent shall be such as may be agreed between the landlord and the tenant or determined by the court . . .

In paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section four of this Act, the expression “proposals for a statutory tenancy” means proposals as to the rent of the dwelling-house during the period of the statutory tenancy proposals as to the matters specified in paragraphs (b) to (e) of the last foregoing subsection, and such other proposals (if any) as to the terms mentioned in subsection (1) of this section as the landlord may include in his notice.

Any such proposals—

shall be made, and be expressed to be made, on the assumption that the dwelling-house will be the premises specified in the landlord’s notice in accordance with subsection (3) of section four of this Act;
shall not be treated as failing to satisfy the requirements of the said subsection (3) by reason only of a difference between the premises to which the proposals relate and the premises subsequently agreed or determined to be the dwelling-house,

and in the event of any such difference the landlord shall not be bound by his proposals notwithstanding that they may have been accepted by the tenant.

An application for securing a determination by the court in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this section shall be made by the landlord, and—

shall be made during the currency of the landlord’s notice proposing a statutory tenancy and not earlier than two months after the giving thereof, so however that if the tenant has elected to retain possession it may be made at a time not earlier than one month after the giving of the notice;
subject to the provisions of the last foregoing subsection, shall not be made for the determination of any matter as to which agreement has already been reached between the landlord and the tenant.

In this Part of this Act the expression “the period of the statutory tenancy” means the period beginning with the coming to an end of the former tenancy and ending with the earliest date by which the tenant, and any successor to his statutory tenancy, have ceased to retain possession of the dwelling-house by virtue of the Rent Act.

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