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Localism Bill

84: After Clause 172, insert the following new Clause— ““Leases to which section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 applies: general rule In section 13(1) Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (leases to which the provisions about repairing obligations in section 11 of that Act apply) after subsection (1) insert— ““(1A) Section 11 also applies to any lease of a dwelling house granted on or after the day on which section 173 of the Localism Act 2011 came into force, for a term of less than 21 years. (1B) Section 11 also applies to a right of occupation given by contract or any enactment and not amounting to a lease as if the right were a lease; and ““lease”” and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.””””