A business tenant protected by the act may not be evicted simply by the giving of notice to quit or by the ending of a fixed term of the tenancy.

This decision was followed in Bassairi Limited v London Borough of Camden,[3] where the tenant let out the bulk of the premises as furnished apartments.

[4] The 1954 act was amended by the Regulatory Reform (Business Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2003 (SI 2003/3096), which was made on 1 December 2003 and came into effect on 1 June 2004.

[6] The main changes adopted under this order were: A consultation draft for a revised form of section 25 notice was issued in January 2004.

Lawyer Malcolm Dowden commented that landlords who simply wanted a section 25 notice "to contain a wish list of terms" would need to beware, arguing that a 2003 court ruling in Mount Cook v Rosen, which addressed the meaning of the term "proposal" as used in the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, was likely to be applied in Landlord and Tenant Act cases.