Section 25 Notice
A notice served by a landlord under s.25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, either proposing new terms for a business tenancy or giving notice that the landlord opposes renewal on statutory grounds.
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Section 25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 gives a landlord of a business tenancy the mechanism for bringing that tenancy to an end at the end of its contractual term. The landlord may terminate a tenancy to which this Part of this Act applies by a notice given to the tenant in the prescribed form specifying the date at which the tenancy is to come to an end.
The Act constrains when that termination date can fall: the date of termination specified in a section 25 notice cannot be earlier than the date on which the tenancy could otherwise have been ended by an ordinary notice to quit given by the landlord on the day the section 25 notice is given, giving business tenants a guaranteed minimum period of continued occupation before the tenancy can be brought to an end this way.
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