Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1980
Number 10 of 1980
LANDLORD AND TENANT (AMENDMENT) ACT 1980
REVISED
Updated to 20 September 2019
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Number 10 of 1980
LANDLORD AND TENANT (AMENDMENT) ACT 1980
REVISED
Updated to 20 September 2019
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Preliminary
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Right to New Tenancy
Reversionary Leases
Compensation
Compensation for Improvements
Compensation for Disturbance
Compensation on termination of tenancy in obsolete buildings. |
Consequential Provisions
Covenants in Leases of Tenements
Miscellaneous
Repeal of Enactments
Number 10 of 1980
LANDLORD AND TENANT (AMENDMENT) ACT 1980
REVISED
Updated to 20 September 2019
AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE RENEWAL OF LEASES AND TENANCIES AND TO COMPENSATION FOR IMPROVEMENTS AND FOR DISTURBANCE OR LOSS OF TITLE AND FOR THESE AND OTHER PURPOSES TO AMEND THE LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [9th June, 1980]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C1
Rights under collectively cited Landlord and Tenant Acts not affected in certain circumstances (1.01.2019) by Domestic Violence Act 2018 (6/2018), s. 32, S.I. No. 532 of 2019.
Orders not to affect rights under certain enactments or estate or interest
32. (1) Where, by reason only of an interim barring order, emergency barring order or a barring order, a person is not residing at a place during any period, that person shall be deemed, for the purposes of any rights under the Statutes of Limitations, the Landlord and Tenant Acts 1967 to 2008, the Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) Acts 1982 and 1983 and the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 to 2015, to be residing at that place during that period.
(2) Except in so far as the exercise by a respondent of a right to occupy the place to which a barring order, an interim barring order or an emergency barring order relates is suspended by virtue of the order, that order shall not affect any estate or interest in that place of that respondent or any other person.
C2
Application of collectively cited Landlord and Tenant Acts restricted (13.05.2015) by Sport Ireland Act 2015 (15/2015), s. 27, commenced on enactment.
Renewal of leases
27. Notwithstanding the Landlord and Tenant Acts 1967 to 2008, Sport Ireland is entitled to withhold consent to—
(a) the renewal of a lease or a tenancy agreement in respect of,
(b) a subletting of, or
(c) a change in use of,
the site or any part of the site where such renewal, subletting or change of use, as the case may be, would prejudice the management or operation of the site.
C3
Application of collectively cited Landlord and Tenant Acts restricted (13.04.2015) by Housing (Miscellaneous) Provisions Act 2014 (21/2014), s. 12(16), S.I. No. 121 of 2015.
Proceedings for possession of local authority dwelling
12. ....
(16) Nothing in the Landlord and Tenant Acts 1967 to 2008 or the Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) Acts 1982 and 1983 relating to the obtaining of possession of a dwelling or building or part thereof shall be deemed to affect this section.
C4
Application of collectively cited Landlord and Tenant Acts restricted by Roads Act 1993 (14/1993), s. 19(11), as inserted (11.07.2007) by Roads Act 2007 (34/2007), s. 7(c), commenced on enactment.
Specific functions of the Authority
19.. ....
[(11) The Landlord and Tenant Acts 1967 to 2005 do not apply to any lettings effected by the Authority or any road authority, in each case, in performing the functions conferred on it by this Act.]
C5
Application of collectively cited Landlord and Tenant Acts restricted (1.01.2001) by Planning and Development Act 2000 (30/2000), s. 211(5)(b), S.I. No. 449 of 2000.
Disposal of land by local authority.
211. ....
(5) (a) Where, as respects any land acquired for the purposes of or appropriated under this or any other Act or acquired otherwise by a local authority, the authority considers that it will not require the use of the land for any of its functions for a particular period, the authority may grant a lease of the land for that period or any lesser period and the lease shall be expressed as a lease granted for the purposes of this subsection.
(b) The Landlord and Tenant Acts, 1967 to 1994, shall not apply in relation to a lease granted under paragraph (a) for the purposes of this subsection.
C6
Application of collectively cited Landlord and Tenant Acts restricted (11.09.1998) by Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act 1998 (24/1998), s. 56, S.I. No. 327 of 1998.
Exemption of company lettings from the Landlord and Tenant Acts.
56.—The provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Acts, 1967 to 1994, or of any Act amending or extending those Acts, shall not apply to lettings effected by the company.
C7
Application of collectively cited Landlord and Tenant Acts restricted (15.07.1991) by Temple Bar Area Renewal and Development Act 1991 (19/1991), s. 11(1), commenced on enactment.
Provisions relating to subletting, etc.
11.—(1) Notwithstanding any provision of the Landlord and Tenant Acts, 1967 to 1989, where a person (in this section referred to as the tenant) enters into a tenancy agreement with Temple Bar Properties Limited in respect of any premises in the Area then the tenant shall not assign, sublet or share possession of the said premises, or any part thereof, without the prior consent in writing of Temple Bar Properties Limited.
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Editorial Notes:
E1
Proceedings under collectively cited Landlord and Tenants Acts in so far as they relate to residential property are eligible for civil legal aid as provided (16.12.1995) by Civil Legal Aid Act 1995 (32/1995), s. 28(9)(c)(i), commenced on enactment.
E2
Previous affecting provision: application of collectively cited Landlord and Tenant Acts restricted (5.07.2006) by National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (19/2006), s. 25, commenced on enactment; Act repealed (1.10.2015, establishment day) by Sport Ireland Act 2015 (15/2015), s. 5(2), commenced on enactment and by S.I. No. 415 of 2015.
E3
Previous affecting provision: rights under collectively cited Landlord and Tenant Acts not affected in certain circumstances (27.03.1996) by Domestic Violence Act 1996 (1/1996), s. 22, commenced as per s. 25(1); Act repealed (1.01.2019) by Domestic Violence Act 2018 (6/2018), s. 3(b), S.I. No. 532 of 2018.
E4
Previous affecting provision: rights under collectively cited Landlord and Tenant Acts not affected in certain circumstances (23.07.1981) by Family Law (Protection of Spouses and Children) Act 1981 (21/1981), s. 16, commenced as per s. 18; Act repealed (27.03.1996) by Domestic Violence Act 1996 (1/1996), s. 23(1), commenced as per s. 25(1).