Commentary on Sections Part 10 – Agricultural Holdings Chapter 2– Repairing Tenancies Section 94 – Repairing tenancies: termination, continuation and extension
454.Section 94 inserts new sections 8F and 8G into the 2003 Act. Section 8F applies the same process for the termination, continuation and extension of a repairing tenancy as provided for MLDTs by section 87 of the Act, subject to section 8G.
455.Section 8G provides the process whereby both parties may end a repairing tenancy during the repairing period if it contains a break clause.
456.Subsection (2) of new section 8G states that at any time during the repairing period, the tenant can terminate the tenancy by giving notice to the landlord.
457.Subsection (3) of that section sets out the notice requirements here: the notice must be in writing and given at least 1 year but no more than 2 years before the date specified in the notice on which the tenant intends to quit the land.
458.Subsection (4) of new section 8G states that the landlord may also terminate the tenancy but such termination can only take effect on the expiry of the repairing period. Subsection (5) then sets out the notice requirements here, including that the landlord must give reasons for terminating the tenancy at this point.
459.Subsection (6) prohibits the landlord from terminating the tenancy on the expiry of the repairing period on the grounds that the tenant is not farming the land in accordance with the rules of good husbandry. However the landlord may terminate the tenancy at this point if the tenant is in breach of another provision of the lease.