Residential Tenancies Act 2004

Chapter 5

Successive further Part 4 tenancies may arise

Purposes of Chapter.

43.—This Chapter has effect for the purpose of ensuring that the additional rights provided by Chapter 4 are regarded as being of a rolling nature, that is to say, that (unless the landlord uses the means under this Part to stop the following happening)—

(a) on the expiry of a further Part 4 tenancy, after it has been in existence for 4 years, another such tenancy comes into being, and

(b) on the expiry of that tenancy, after it has been in existence for 4 years, a further such tenancy comes into being,

and so on.