Paragraph 7 also inserts a new ground so that a court is required to award possession when the landlord seeking possession was a superior landlord and becomes the direct landlord of the assured tenancy following the ending of a lease superior to the assured tenancy. The ground can only be used where the superior lease was over 21 years in length. Superior landlords can regain possession within six months of the tenancy reverting to them. Superior landlords will also be able to rely upon a section 8 notice served by the intermediate landlord under ground 2ZB to bring a possession claim under this ground by virtue of section 8, subsection (5B) (added by section 3, subsection (3)(f)).
Schedules Schedule 1: Changes to grounds for possession New ground for possession by superior landlord (2ZD) Effect