3 Transmission of benefit and burden of covenants
Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 (1995 c 30) | Legislation

Transmission of covenants

3  Transmission of benefit and burden of covenants

(1)     The benefit and burden of all landlord and tenant covenants of a tenancy—

(a)     shall be annexed and incident to the whole, and to each and every part, of the premises demised by the tenancy and of the reversion in them, and

(b)     shall in accordance with this section pass on an assignment of the whole or any part of those premises or of the reversion in them.

(2)     Where the assignment is by the tenant under the tenancy, then as from the assignment the assignee—

(a)     becomes bound by the tenant covenants of the tenancy except to the extent that—

(i)     immediately before the assignment they did not bind

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