12 Effect of direction on succession to other holdings

8.103 If the retiring tenant dies, and the nominated successor is for the time being entitled to a tenancy of the holding pursuant to a direction of the Tribunal, then he is ‘deemed’ (by s 58 of the 1986 Act) to be occupying that holding for the purposes of satisfying the occupancy condition¹⁷² in relation to any other tenancies held by the deceased. Thus, if the holding to which he succeeds on retirement is a ‘commercial unit’ of agricultural land he will be ineligible to apply for a direction entitling him to succeed to any of the other tenancies held by the deceased tenant at his death.