Deserted Tenements Act 1817

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1817 c. 52
Year1817
Anno Regni GEORGII III. Britanniarum Regis,Quinquagesimo Septimo. An Act to alter an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the Second, for the more effectual securing the Payment of Rents, and preventing Frauds by Tenants.

(57 Geo. 3) C A P. LII.

[27th June 1817]

'WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Second, intituled , it is amongst other things enacted, that from and after the Twenty fourth Day ofJune One thousand seven hundred and thirty eight, if any Tenant holding any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments at a Rack Rent, or where the Rent reserved should be full Three fourths of the Yearly Value of the demised Premises, who should be in Arrear for One Year's Rent, should desert the demised Premises, and leave the same uncultivated or unoccupied, so as no sufficient Distress could be had to countervail the Arrears of Rent, it should and might be lawful to and for Two or more Justices of the Peace of the County, Riding, Division or Place (having no Interest in the demised Premises), at the Request of the Lessor or Landlord, Lessors or Landlords, or his, her or their Bailiff or Receiver, to go upon and view the same, and to affix or cause to be affixed on the most notorious Part of the Premises Notice in Writing what Day (at the Distance of Fourteen Days at least) they would return to take a Second View thereof; and if upon such Second View the Tenant, or some Person on his or her behalf, should not appear and pay the Rent in Arrear, or there should not be sufficient Distress upon the Premises, then the said Justices might put the Landlord or Landlords, Lessor or Lessors, into the Possession of the said demised Premises; and the Lease thereof to such Tenant, as to any Demise therein contained only, should from thenceforth become void: And Whereas it is expedient, for the due Protection of the Interest of Landlords, that so much of the said Act as requires a Tenant to be in Arrear for One Year's Rent should be altered, and that the Provisions of the said Act should be extended to Tenancies where no Right...

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