{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1954/schedule-FIFTH/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1954/schedule-FIFTH/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/56",
  "legislation_title": "Landlord and Tenant Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1954",
  "path": "schedule/FIFTH/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The competent landlord may serve on any other landlord a notice in the prescribed form requiring him to consent to the giving or making of any such notice or agreement as aforesaid; and if within one month after the service of a notice under this paragraph—\n(a) the consent has not been given, or\n(b) conditions have been imposed on the giving of the consent which are in the opinion of the court unreasonable in all the circumstances,\nthe court, on an application by the competent landlord, may if it thinks fit order that the other landlord shall be deemed to have consented, either without qualification or subject to such conditions (including conditions as to the modification of the proposed notice or agreement or as to the payment of compensation by the competent landlord) as may be specified in the order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/56/schedule/FIFTH/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:51.039918+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."
}