{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1927/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1927/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/17-18/36",
  "legislation_title": "Landlord and Tenant Act 1927",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1927",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Power to apply and raise capital money.",
  "text": "(1) Capital money arising under the Settled Land Act, 1925 . . . . . . may be applied—\n(a) in payment as for an improvement authorised by the Act of any money expended and costs incurred by a landlord under or in pursuance of this Part of this Act in or about the execution of any improvement;\n(b) in payment of any sum due to a tenant under this Part of this Act in respect of compensation for an improvement . . . and any costs, charges, and expenses incidental thereto;\n(c) in payment of the costs, charges, and expenses of opposing any proposal by a tenant to execute an improvement.\n(2) The satisfaction of a claim for such compensation as aforesaid shall be included amongst the purposes for which a tenant for life, statutory owner . . . may raise money under section seventy-one of the Settled Land Act, 1925.\n(3) Where the landlord liable to pay compensation for an improvement . . . is a tenant for life or in a fiduciary position, he may require the sum payable as compensation and any costs, charges, and expenses incidental thereto, to be paid out of any capital money held on the same trusts as the settled land.\nIn this subsection “capital money” includes any personal estate held on the same trusts as the land . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 13(1) repealed (1.1.1997) by 1996 c. 47, s. 25(2), Sch. 4 (with ss. 24(2), 25(4), 25(5)); S.I. 1996/2974, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 13(1) omitted (19.5.2025) by virtue of Charities Act 2022 (c. 6), s. 41(4), Sch. 1 para. 2; S.I. 2024/265, reg. 4, Sch. 2 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (c. 56), s. 45, Sch. 7 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 13(2) repealed (1.1.1997) by 1996 c. 47, s. 25(2), Sch. 4 (with ss. 24(2), 25(4), 25(5)); S.I. 1996/2974, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 13(3) repealed (1.1.1997) by 1996 c. 47, s. 25(2), Sch. 4 (with ss. 24(2), 25(4), 25(5)); S.I. 1996/2974, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1925 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1925 c. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/17-18/36/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:47.105764+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}