{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1890/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1890/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/53-54/69",
  "legislation_title": "Settled Land Act 1890",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1890",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Provision as to leases for 21 years.",
  "text": "A lease for a term not exceeding twenty-one years at the best rent that can be reasonably obtained without fine, and whereby the lessee is not exempted from punishment for waste, may be made by a tenant for life—\n(i) Without any notice of an intention to make the same having been given under section forty-five of the Act of 1882; and\n(ii) Notwithstanding that there are no trustees of the settlement for the purposes of the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to 1890; and\n(iii) By any writing under hand only containing an agreement instead of a covenant by the lessee for payment of rent in cases where the term does not extend beyond three years from the date of the writing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1882 c. 38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/53-54/69/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:38.810432+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."
}