ABSTRACT
A tenant of business premises who has made improvements to the premises or whose predecessor in title to the tenancy has made improvements may be entitled to compensation from the landlord for those improvements when quitting the premises at the end of the tenancy. This right arises under the provisions of Part 1 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 (the 1927 Act) and applies notwithstanding any contract to the contrary made after 8 February 1927. The 1927 Act used to allow contracting out for adequate consideration, but this was abolished by s 49 of the 1954 Act. It also allows a tenant who complies with it to carry out improvements notwithstanding an absolute covenant in the lease prohibiting this.
