6Leases for term not exceeding twenty-one years

6 Leases for term not exceeding twenty-one years

*[Section 6 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]*A lease for a term not exceeding twenty-one years at the best rent that can be reasonably obtained without fine, and whereby the lessee is not exempted from punishment for waste, may be made by a tenant for life –

(a) without any notice of an intention to make the same having been given under section forty-two of the Principal Act ;

(b) notwithstanding that there are no trustees of the settlement for the purposes of the Principal Act ; and

(c) by any writing under hand only containing an agreement instead of a covenant by the lessee for payment of rent in cases where the term does not extend beyond three years from the date of the writing.