10Variation of building leases according to circumstances of district

10 Variation of building leases according to circumstances of district

[Section 10 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]

(1)  Where it is shown to the Court with respect to the district in which any settled land is situate, that it is difficult to make leases or grants for building purposes of land therein, except for a longer term or on other conditions than the term and conditions specified in that behalf in this Act, or except in perpetuity, the Court may, if it thinks fit, authorize generally the tenant for life to make leases or grants of or affecting the settled land in that district, or parts thereof, for any term or in perpetuity, at such rents, secured by condition of re-entry or otherwise, as in the order of the Court expressed, or may, if it thinks fit, authorize the tenant for life to make any such lease or grant in any particular case.

(2)  Thereupon the tenant for life, and, subject to any direction in the order of the Court to the contrary, each of his successors in title being a tenant for life, or having the powers of a tenant for life under this Act, may make in any case, or in the particular case, a lease or grant of or affecting the settled land, or part thereof, in conformity with the order.