Landlord and Tenant (Ground Rents) Act, 1967

Costs of leases.

32.—(1) Notwithstanding any rule of law, a party to a lease shall not be under an obligation to pay the solicitor's costs of the lease of any other party to the lease and so much of any contract made after the commencement of this Act as provides for the payment of all or any of the solicitor's costs of the lease of any party to the lease by any other party thereto shall be void.

(2) In this section “lease” includes an agreement for a lease or for a tenancy but does not include a mortgage by subdemise.