Periods of limitation - landlord and tenant

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Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act, 1971


Time: Not earlier than 15 years before expiration of the lease and not later than the expiration of the lease or the expiration of three months from the service on the club by its immediate lessor or any superior lessor of notice of expiration of the lease whichever is later. Notice shall be valid only if served not earlier than 3 months before expiration of lease.

Section: Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act, 1971, Section 3


 

Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act, 1980

The following list of periods of limitation is not exhaustive.

 

Time: Before the termination of tenancy or at any time thereafter but before the expiration of three months after service on claimant by landlord of notice of expiration of the term or period of the happening of the event.

Section: Section 20 (2)(a)(i)(ii)

 

Time: At any time but before the expiration of three months after service on claimant by landlord of notice of the happening of the event.

Section: Section 20 (2)(b)

 

Time: At any time but before the expiration of three months after service of the notice.

Section: Section 20 (2)(c)

 

Time: At any time but before the expiration of six months after service of the notice.

Section: Section 20 (2)(d)

 

Time: Not earlier than 15 years before expiration of existing lease and not later than the expiration of the lease or 3 months from service of notice by immediate lessor or any superior lessor, whichever is the later. The notice shall be valid only if served not earlier than 3 months before the expiration of the lease.

Section: Section 31

 

Time: Where a tenant proposes to make an improvement, notice must be served on the landlord. The landlord may within one month serve on the tenant a notice of consent or a notice of undertaking to execute the improvement in consideration of either a specified increase in rent to be agreed or fixed by the Court or an improvement objection.

Section: Section 48

 

Time: The landlord must within one week serve a notice on his superior landlord, if any.

Section: Section 48

 

Time: Landlord must object within one month. Tenant can then apply to court.

Section: Section 48 and Section 52

 

Time: Notice of intention to claim must be made in same period as notice of intention to claim relief – See Section 20 (2).

Section: Section 56

 

Time: Landlord must give 6 months’ notice.

Section: Section 60(2) as amended by Section 199(2) of the Residential Tenancies Act, 2004

 

Time: The court may extend time on such terms as it thinks proper and satisfied that injustice would be cause

Section: Section 83

 

Time: Within 2 months of tenant serving notice to claim compensation for improvements under Part IV.

Section: Section 22(1)

 

Time: Within 1 month of notice of offer of new tenancy.

Section: Section 22(2)

 

Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act, 1994 Amends the following sections of the 1980 Landlord & Tenant Act and S.3 1994 Act amends S13 1980 Act:

Paragraph (a) of S.13 (1) of 1980 Act is amended by the substitution of “5 years” for “3 years”. This shall have effect only in relation to a lease or other contract of tenancy the term of which commences after the commencement of this Act.

S.4 amends S.17 of 1980 Act.

S.5 amends S.23 of 1980 Act.

S.6 amends S.85 of 1980 Act.


 

Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act, 1984

 

Time: Where the rent has not previously been reviewed, not earlier than one month before the fifth anniversary of the date on which the terms of the lease were settled. Where the rent has been reviewed previously, not earlier than the fifth anniversary of the date of service of the notice for preceding review.

Section: Section 3

 

Time: Not earlier than one month after the service of the notice.

Section: Section 3

 

Time: Same as for reversionary lease.

Section: Section 5

 

Time: Same as for reversionary lease.

Time: Same as for reversionary leases and sporting leases.

Section: Section 5

Section: Section 15