{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-act-1986/schedule-3/part-I/chapter/paragraph-wrapper1n1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-act-1986/schedule-3/part-I/chapter/paragraph-wrapper1n1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/5",
  "legislation_title": "Agricultural Holdings Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/3/part/I/chapter/paragraph/wrapper1n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The holding is let as a smallholding by a smallholdings authority or the Minister in pursuance of Part III of the Agriculture Act 1970 and was so let on or after 12th September 1984, and\n(a) the tenant has attained the tenant's pensionable age (as specified from time to time in Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act 1995), and\n(b) if the result of the notice to quit taking effect would be to deprive the tenant of living accommodation occupied by him under the tenancy, suitable alternative accommodation is available for him, or will be available for him when the notice takes effect, and\n(c) the instrument under which the tenancy was granted contains an acknowledgment signed by the tenant that the tenancy is subject to the provisions of this Case (or to those of Case I in section 2(3) of the Agricultural Holdings (Notices to Quit) Act 1977),\nand it is stated in the notice to quit that it is given by reason of the said matter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 1 substituted (11.11.2020 for specified purposes, 11.1.2021 in so far as not already in force) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), s. 57(1)(b)(c)(6), Sch. 3 para. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1970 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1977 c. 12."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}