32Voluntary waste

32 Voluntary waste

32 Voluntary waste

s 32, hdg: Rep 2001 No 56, Sch 3.2.

(1) A tenant for life or lives or a leasehold tenant shall not commit voluntary waste.

(2) Nothing in subsection one of this section applies to any estate or tenancy without impeachment of waste, or affects any licence or other right to commit waste.

(3) In subsection one of this section leasehold tenant includes a tenant for a term, a tenant under a periodical tenancy, a tenant under a tenancy to which section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Conveyancing Act 1919, as amended by subsequent Acts, applies, and a tenant at will.

(4) A tenant who infringes subsection one of this section is liable in damages to his remainderman or reversioner but this section imposes no criminal liability.

(5) This section does not affect the operation of any event which may determine a tenancy at will.