The Government announced plans to tackle the growing problem of newly built houses being sold as leasehold rather than freehold and to limit ground rents on newly created lease agreements
Documents to download
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Mortgage Repossessions (Protection of Tenants Etc.) Bill Bill 15 of 2009/10 (181 KB, PDF)
The main purpose of the Bill is to offer protection to tenants of rental properties whose landlord has both defaulted on his mortgage and not notified his lender that the property was being let (an 'unauthorised tenancy'). The Bill gives courts power to postpone the delivery of a possession order, and to stay or suspend the execution of an existing possession order. It also ensures the tenant is given notice of a possession order before its execution.
Documents to download
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Mortgage Repossessions (Protection of Tenants Etc.) Bill Bill 15 of 2009/10 (181 KB, PDF)
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