ABSTRACT
Throughout Great Britain, but in Northern Ireland, tenancies of agricultural units that are used for trade or business are governed by specific legislation, reflecting the distinctive issues of farming and its history. In particular, most farming sees the tenant necessarily investing in the landlord’s land to produce output, whether crops or grass and so livestock. The legislative framework has then evolved in response to changing pressures and concerns, generally becoming more prescriptive until the 1980s and much less so since with corresponding consequences for landlords’ willingness to let new land. Enacted for England and Wales, devolution now means that Wales can and has varied such legislation, always in step with England, creating issues especially for practitioners in the Welsh marches likely to be working with both regimes. statutory, as in Scotland under the 2003 Act’s right for a tenant to preempt a landlord’s sale of the reversion and the relinquishment and assignation provisions proposed under the 2016 Act.
