COMMONHOLD & LEASEHOLD REFORM ACT 2002
For a consise guide to the Act and its coming into force you can do no better than look first at the summary provided by The Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE).
The following references are listed in chronological
sequence.
This is intended as a rough guide to the history of the bringing into operation of the Act only. Persons wishing to derive quotes from what follows shouold use the links and refer to the documents directly.
Since at least the commencement of recorded history, leasehold has been recognised as a key mechanism by which Lords have retained wealth and power over their tenants. We might ask why the governing party, having recently identified it as feudal, would then choose to introduce the Commonhold Leasehold Reform Bill via the House of Lords rather than the House of Commons where Bills normally start and whether this influenced the finaloutcome.
(Those wishing to research the history of leasehold need to commence with the Babylonians, trace its use by the Romans and the Anglo Saxons before they get to the Normans)
It should be noted that many of the sections in the Act were brought in part at a time and some sections are still not in operation 5 years after the Act was past and a full decade since it was conceived.