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2.1.1 Agricultural holdings and farm business tenancies: matters referable to arbitration under the Arbitration Act 1996

2.1.1.1 Agricultural holdings

Matter Provision
Securing a Written Tenancy Agreement, and settling terms in Sch 1. Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 6(1).
Dispute as to effect on agreement of operation of Section 2. Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 2(4).
Varying repairing obligations, where lease at variance with SI 2015/690 or SI 1973/1473 (the ‘model clauses’). Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 8(2).
Valuing rent payable on review. Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 12(1).
Increase of rent following landlord’s improvements. Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 13(7).
Maintenance of land as permanent pasture. Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 14(2).
Freedom of cropping – whether tenant exercising right so as to cause damage etc. Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 15(6).
Fair value of tenant’s fixtures purchased by landlord on termination of tenancy. Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 10(6).
Valuation of damage by game. Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 20(4).
Notices to remedy breach of tenancy – liability to repair etc. Agricultural Holdings (Arbitration on Notices) Order 1987, SI 1987/710, Art 3.
Matter Provision
Notice to Quit under Sch 3, Cases A, B, D or E of the 1986 Act. Agricultural Holdings (Arbitration on Notices) Order 1987, SI 1987/710, Art 9. Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 28(4) (case D only).
Availability of Alternative Accommodation (ibid.
Case A).
Agricultural Holdings (Arbitration on Notices) Order 1987, SI 1987/710, Art 9.
Any claim by landlord or tenant, arising on or out of termination of tenancy, under the 1986 Act, custom or agreement, eg compensation for disturbance, improvements, tenant-right. Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, s 83(1).

2.1.1.2 Farm business tenancies

Matter Provision
Rent review pursuant to statutory review notice. Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, s 12.
Improvements: failure of landlord to give consent, or conditions attached to consent. Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, s 19(1).
Settlement of claims, on termination of tenancy, for compensation for tenant’s improvements. Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, s 22.
Any dispute between the landlord and tenant under a farm business tenancy ‘being a dispute concerning their rights and obligations under [the 1995 Act], under the terms of the tenancy or under any custom’.
NB. the parties may choose, in the tenancy agreement, to use alternative dispute resolution as an alternative to arbitration. Each party has the right to opt back into arbitration by giving notice in accordance with s 29(1)(b).
Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, s 28.

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Source: Rodgers Christopher. Agricultural Law. Bloomsbury Publishing,2016. — 914 p.. 2016
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