8.11 The statutory scheme allows for two transmissions of the tenancy.

This basic principle is enshrined in somewhat complex terms in s 37. Thus, no application for succession can be made if, on each of the last two occasions when there died a sole surviving tenant of the holding:

•Either a tenancy of the holding (or of a related holding) was obtained by tribunal direction; or

•The landlord granted a tenancy of the holding to a close relative of the deceased who had become the sole remaining applicant for a direction. A tribunal application must have been made if the tenancy is to count as one succession under the Act,³¹ and the successor must be the only, or sole remaining, applicant for a direction.