Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 gives business tenants a statutory right to renew — a right hedged by strict notices, deadlines and grounds of opposition.
A defective notice or a missed deadline under the 1954 Act can cost a tenant its renewal right altogether, so the procedure matters as much as the substance. This chapter starts with the security of tenure Part II confers, the tenancies excluded from it, and how the parties can contract out under section 38A with the prescribed warning notice and declarations. It then works through the renewal machinery: identifying the competent landlord, the section 25 notice and section 26 request that set the process in motion, the timing rules each must satisfy, and the court application deadline on which everything turns. Finally it covers the section 30(1) grounds on which a landlord may oppose renewal, the terms and rent of a new lease ordered by the court, interim rent, and the compensation and section 27 notices that govern how a protected tenancy comes to an end.
