Section 11 Recovery of Premises Act 1945

Section 11 Recovery of Premises Act 1945 is about Obligation of sub-tenant to give notice to his immediate landlord. It provides as follows:

(1) Where any summons for the recovery of any premises as is hereinbefore specified is served on or comes to the knowledge of any sub-tenant of the plaintiff’s immediate tenant, the sub-tenant being an occupier of the whole or of a part of the premises sought to be recovered, he shall forthwith give notice
thereof to his immediate landlord.

(2) Failure to give notice shall render the sub-tenant rendering him liable to forfeit such sum as the court may consider just but not exceeding three years’ rent of the premises held by the subtenant to such landlord.

(3) The sum to be recoverable, whatever the amount thereof, by the landlord by action in the court from which the summons shall have issued, and the landlord, on the receipt of such notice, if not originally a defendant, may be added or substituted as a defendant to defend possession of the premises in question.

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