Commentary on the Sections: Part 1 Qualifying rules Section 142: Personal Representatives
236.Section 142 amends section 6 of the 1967 Act.  It improves the rights of those who inherit leasehold houses.   Where the deceased leaseholder qualified for the right to extend the lease and/or enfranchise at the time of death, personal representatives would be able to exercise those rights within two years of the grant of probate or letters of administration.   It also makes a consequential amendment to Schedule 3 to the 1967 Act.