Rent Restrictions Act, 1960

Application of Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931, to certain premises.

54.—(1) This section applies to premises which, immediately before the operative date, were—

(a) controlled premises within the meaning of the Act of 1946 and business premises within that meaning, and

(b) premises the letting of which was not—

(i) a letting made and expressed to be made for the temporary convenience of the landlord or of the tenant and (if made after the 22nd day of December, 1931) stating the nature of such temporary convenience, or

(ii) a letting made for or dependent on the continuance of the tenant in any office, employment or appointment.

(2) The Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931 , shall apply to all premises to which this section applies and for that purpose—

(i) “tenement” in that Act shall include all such premises,

(ii) “business” in that Act shall include all trades, professions and businesses, whether or not carried on for gain or reward, and also the public service,

(iii) subsection (1) of section 19 of that Act shall have effect as if the following word and paragraph were added thereto:

“or

(e) such tenement is premises referred to in subsection (1) of section 54 of the Rent Restrictions Act, 1960.”,

(iv) in any application of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 24 of that Act to any such premises, the reference in that paragraph to one month shall be construed as a reference to six months,

(v) where any such premises were, immediately before the operative date, held under a statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Act of 1946, the tenant under that tenancy shall, on and after that date, be deemed to hold the premises from the landlord under a tenancy having the same terms and conditions as the statutory tenancy except that the landlord may, by not less than three months' notice expiring on any gale day served on the tenant, determine the tenancy,

(vi) any notice under the foregoing paragraph shall, for the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 24 of that Act be deemed to be a notice to quit.