How Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 gives business tenants security of tenure, and how that protection is excluded, renewed or brought to an end.
Whether a business tenancy continues beyond its contractual term turns on a chain of statutory rules, and each link matters. This chapter begins with the protection Part II provides, the conditions a tenant must satisfy and what counts as a business, before examining how occupation and underletting affect the tenant's holding and which tenancies fall outside the Act altogether. It then works through the contracting-out procedure — the warning notice, the declarations and the timing that make exclusion valid — and the two routes into renewal, the landlord's section 25 notice and the tenant's section 26 request. It closes with the ways a tenant can end a protected tenancy, the seven grounds on which a landlord may oppose a new tenancy, and when statutory compensation is payable.
