SCHEDULE 12CONVERSION OF TENANCIES AND LICENCES EXISTING BEFORE COMMENCEMENT OF CHAPTER 3 OF PART 10

Waste and tenant-like user

16Section 101 does not apply to a converted contract; accordingly—

(a)a contract-holder under a converted contract is subject to the same liability for waste in respect of the dwelling as he or she was subject to immediately before the appointed day, and

(b)the rule of law under which a tenant has an implied duty to use demised premises in a tenant-like manner applies to a contract-holder under a converted contract as it applied to him or her immediately before the appointed day.