Business Protection Measures
In 2020, the Government introduced measures to help businesses who were unable to pay their rent due to the impact of coronavirus. These were a moratorium on forfeiture (which prevents landlords from evicting business tenants on the basis of unpaid rent), a restriction on landlords’ abilities to seize goods to recover unpaid rent, and restrictions on the use of winding-up petitions and statutory demands (which have applied to and beyond commercial landlords and tenants). These measures were introduced to offer temporary relief, although the periods for which they applied were extended as restrictions continued.