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Business Tenancies (Fair Dealings) Act 2003
130Notice to quit business premises
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130 Notice to quit business premises
(1) Subject to a term of the business lease, a landlord is not required to
specify in the notice to quit a ground for the giving of notice in
respect of a periodical tenancy.
(2) Subject to the terms of the business lease, if the lease was granted
for a fixed term the landlord must specify as a ground for the giving
of a notice to quit:
(a) that the tenant has breached or failed to comply with a
provision of the lease and that the breach or failure to comply
was such that the landlord was justified as treating the lease
as at an end; or
(b) that the term of the lease has expired.
(3) The period of a notice to quit premises is the period fixed by the
lease or, where the rent is payable at regular intervals, the period of
one such interval.