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BUSINESS TENANCIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 20

Restriction on agreements excluding provisions of Part I.

20.(1) So much of any agreement relating to a tenancy to which this Part
applies (whether contained in the instrument creating the tenancy or not) as
purports directly or indirectly by any means whatsoever to preclude the tenant
from making an application or request under this Part or provides for the
termination or the surrender of the tenancy in the event of his making such an
application or request or for the imposition of any penalty, restriction or
disability on the tenant in that event, shall be void.

(2) Where

(a)during the whole of the five years immediately preceding the date on which
the tenant under a tenancy to which this Part applies is to quit the holding,
premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes
of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes; and

(b)if during those five years there was a change in the occupier of the
premises, the person who was the occupier immediately after the change was the
successor to the business carried on by the person who was the occupier
immediately before the change;

(3) In a case not falling within subsection (2) the right to compensation
conferred by section 19 may be excluded or modified by agreement.


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