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DRAFT AGREEMENT - EXAMPLE ONLY 1. MAIN TERMS AND DEFINITIONS 1. The Landlord is the London Borough of Camden, of the Town Hall, Judd Street, London WC1H PLP (referred to as „us‟ or „we‟) ; and The Tenant is ________of ___________ (referred to as „you‟ or „your‟); and 2. 3. [The Guarantor] _____________ 4. The Property is [Schedule A description] ________in the LBC as shown for the purposes of identification on the plans attached edged in red. 5. The term of this lease begins immediately and ends on [Finish date of the term]. The term of the lease will include any extension that applies by law 6. The rent will be £x/a peppercorn Per annum. 7. The rent payment dates are 25 March, 24 June, 29 September and 25 December 8. The clause and paragraph headings in this lease are for reference purposes only 2. GRANTING THE LEASE We agree to grant you a lease of the Property upon the conditions in this document at the rent for the term You must allow us, and anyone else who is entitled, the following rights: 1. To make connections with any pipes, sewers, drains, channels, mains, cables, and wires to allow water, soil, waste, gas, electricity and other services to be provided to your property. 2. The right to enter the property at reasonable times (upon reasonable notice) to inspect the condition of the property or to carry out repairs to the pipes, sewers, D:\Docstoc\Working\pdf\6ff2c5e3-dad2-4fdf-8900-010d57a94303.doc 1 drains, channels, mains, cables and wires or to the property or properties nearby. In an emergency, notice will not be necessary. 3. YOUR OBLIGATIONS You agree to the following: a. Rent You will pay the rent on the rent payment date without any deduction or set off and (if required) by bank standing order or credit transfer to our account. b. Outgoings You will pay all charges for all rates, taxes, and other outgoings that are charged on (or are due) the property. Remove Clause for Smaller Tenant‟s Halls c. Service charge You will be responsible for the cleaning, lighting, repairing and maintaining of any part of the property. d. Repairs Throughout the term you must keep the inside of the property, the door, the glass in doors and windows and all fixtures and fittings (including any extra ones we supply) in good repair. You are primarily responsible for securing the premises and security issues including maintaining CCTV and security alarms in good working order. Remove Clause for Smaller Tenant‟s Halls e. Decorating D:\Docstoc\Working\pdf\6ff2c5e3-dad2-4fdf-8900-010d57a94303.doc 2 f. g. You will decorate the property and keep it in a good decorative condition. Entering your property to inspect and repair 1. You will allow us, and our agents to enter your property and examine its condition at all reasonable times. We may serve a notice on you giving details of any repairs you will be required to carry out immediately. 2. If you have not carried out the required repairs within 28 days after service, you must allow us or our agents to enter the property and carry them out. You will be required to reimburse us for the costs incurred. Remove Clause for Smaller Tenant‟s Halls h. Waste You will not permit or cause any contaminative or hazardous substances to be on or to be discharged from the Premises and will not cause contamination or pollution at under or from the property. i. Alterations You will not make any alteration or addition to the Premises (including displaying any signs, posters, advertisements, etc) inside or outside, subject to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Any works carried out subject to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 must be consented to in writing by us. j. Use 1. You will use and continue to use the property only for the permitted use. 2. You will not do anything which is a nuisance or annoyance to us or the owners or occupiers of any adjoining or neighbouring property, or use the property for any illegal or immoral purpose, or hold an auction or political meeting on the Premises. D:\Docstoc\Working\pdf\6ff2c5e3-dad2-4fdf-8900-010d57a94303.doc 3 3. Unless you have our written permission, you will not set up machinery other than the usual appropriate for the use granted for the property. 4. You will not allow rubbish to build up on the property and you will provide adequate and suitable containers for collecting rubbish. You will arrange with us to remove the trade rubbish at suitable times and to keep it inside the property until collection day. You will clean the property and the drains as often as need be. 5. You will not load anything on the floors of the property if it will strain, damage or interfere with the main structure of the property. 6. You will allow not any vehicle to stay on any access way or road other than to collect or deliver goods and not to obstruct the access of any properties nearby. 7. You will not install any jukebox on the property or allow anyone to play music, play an instrument or have the television on so it can be heard outside the property. 8. You must keep to all conditions of all laws and regulations relating to town and country planning. You will not apply for, or implement, any planning permission in respect of the Premises without our prior written consent. 9. You must carry out, or arrange to have carried out, any work needed under any Act of Parliament. This includes the Health and Safety at Work Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 the Factories Act 1961 the Offices Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 the Employer's Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 the Employer's Liability (Defective Equipment) Act 1969 and the Control of Pollution Act 1974 the Environmental Protection Act 1990. 10. You must not attach any figure, pole, flag, signboard, or any other form of advertisement in or on the property unless you have our written permission. You will have to remove the sign and put right any damage caused to our reasonable satisfaction at the end of the term. D:\Docstoc\Working\pdf\6ff2c5e3-dad2-4fdf-8900-010d57a94303.doc 4 K Making the insurance invalid You must not do anything (or allow anything to be done) which may invalidate any insurance policy relating to the property or any of our other properties or which may increase the premiums for that insurance. If premiums do increase because of your misuse you will pay us all amounts incurred as a result. L Assigning your rights to the property, subletting, etc 1. You will not assign, sublet, charge, share or otherwise part with the possession of the property. 2. Hiring Arrangements are only to be made using the standard agreement. M Leaving the property 1. At the end of the term you will leave the property decorated, repaired, cleaned and kept according to your obligations in this lease. You may take any fixtures and fittings that you own as long as you repair any damage caused by their removal. 2. At the end of the term if you have left any trade fixtures, belongings or rubbish on the property, we may treat them as abandoned and arrange for their removal. We may sell or destroy them and you will have to pay us any costs we incur. You will cover us against any liability resulting from our action. 3. If you fail to leave the property in a reasonable condition, we may carry out any repairs, decoration and other work needed. You will reimburse us for the cost of these repairs and for any rental loss incurred due to property not being available for rent at the expiration of your lease. Our surveyor will determine these costs and provide a certificate (binding on you and us) of the loss of profit. D:\Docstoc\Working\pdf\6ff2c5e3-dad2-4fdf-8900-010d57a94303.doc 5 N Keeping to all laws You will obey all laws and conditions of any local authority in relation to the property. You will cover us against all action, proceedings, claims or demands that may be brought as a result of you not keeping to any laws or conditions. 0. Rights of Way You will not enter into any agreement with any person for a right of way or similar applying to your property or any premises next to, opposite or near to it without our written permission. 4. OUR RESPONSIBILITIES We agree to the following: a. Quiet enjoyment We will not interrupt your tenancy as long as you pay the rent and keep to all your responsibilities contained in this lease. b. Service Charges We will not charge you service charges or any amount for water, gas or electricity. c. Repairs We are responsible for structural and external repairs to your property. Clause for Small Tenant‟s Halls only d. Insurance D:\Docstoc\Working\pdf\6ff2c5e3-dad2-4fdf-8900-010d57a94303.doc 6 We will keep the property (not including any plate glass which may be installed) insured against loss or damage by fire, being hit by aircraft, riot or weather conditions and any other risks including loss of rent we think are appropriate. If you do anything (or fail to do anything) that makes the insurance invalid, our responsibility under this clause will end. e. Suspending your rent If any part of the property is damaged or destroyed by one of the risks we are insured for and it cannot be used for the purposes allowed under this Lease, we will suspend the rent or part of it until you can use the property again. However, this will not apply if the insurance is invalid because of something you have done or failed to do. If there is any dispute to do with this clause, both parties will choose an expert. If we cannot agree on an expert, you will choose one and we will choose another. In either case, we will keep to the conditions of the Arbitration Act 1996 or any statutory modification that applies. 5 a. IMPORTANT CONDITIONS Taking back possession of the property We may enter and take back possession of the property as if the lease had never been granted without prejudice to any right of action or remedy against the landlord. (i) (ii) If you fail to carry out any of the conditions or agreements in this lease. If you become bankrupt or make any arrangements or agreements with your creditors. b Using the property This lease does not guarantee to you that the permitted use is in accordance with all town planning laws and regulations. D:\Docstoc\Working\pdf\6ff2c5e3-dad2-4fdf-8900-010d57a94303.doc 7 c. Neighbouring premises Nothing in this lease will prevent us or other owners of the neighbouring properties from dealing with those properties as they please despite that such dealings may affect your light or air. d. Notices Any notice given under this lease must be in writing and will be deemed to have been served if we have addressed it to the property or sent it to your last known address. Any notice to us will be served if you deliver it personally or send it by recorded delivery to the Chief Executive, London Borough of Camden, Town Hall, Judd Street London WC1 9LP. e. Compensation If we end the term before the end of five years from the start date, you will not be entitled to any compensation under part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 or any law which modifies this Act. f Local authority powers Nothing in this lease will affect our rights and powers as the local authority for the London Borough of Camden. We can enforce, as the Council, all rights and powers we have in relation to the property as though we were not the landlord. g Enforcing our rights Our acceptance of rent, any other payment, grant of licence or approval of a document will not constitute as our consent to give up any right we may have against you for a breach of any of the conditions or obligations in this lease. This applies whether or not we were aware of the breach at the time of the acceptance, grant or approval. D:\Docstoc\Working\pdf\6ff2c5e3-dad2-4fdf-8900-010d57a94303.doc 8 h. VAT Where applicable you must pay VAT on any payment made to us. i. Landlord and Tenant Act 1. Both parties have agreed that the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 sections 24 to 28 do not apply. 2. We have served on you a notice in the form, or substantially in the form, set out in Schedule 1 of the Regulatory Reform (Business Tenancies)(England and Wales) Order 2003 (“the Order”). 3. The requirements specified in Schedule 2 to the Order have been met in that you have made the appropriate declaration in the form, or substantially in the form, set out in Schedule 2 to the Order 6. BREAK If you would like to terminate the lease you must give us three months written notice, and fulfill all your obligations under the lease prior to the termination date. Such termination does not prevent us from claiming damages against you for any obligation that has been breached or may not have been fulfilled. 7. CERTIFICATE There is no Agreement for Lease in connection with this lease 8 LEGAL DECLARATIONS 1. This tenancy is a new tenancy under Section 1 of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995. 2. Unless we say otherwise, nothing in this lease will give rights to anyone other than you and us in accordance with the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. 9. Other CLAUSE D:\Docstoc\Working\pdf\6ff2c5e3-dad2-4fdf-8900-010d57a94303.doc 9 1. The Trustees of the Trust are only liable for their obligations under the lease to the extent that the funds, assets and income of the Trust are for the time being sufficient to discharge such liabilities. THE COMMON SEAL OF THE MAYOR AND BURGESSES OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN was hereunto affixed by Order:- ) ) ) ) Duly Authorised Officer SIGNED AND DELIVERED AS A DEED by the said ** in the presence of:- ) ) ) D:\Docstoc\Working\pdf\6ff2c5e3-dad2-4fdf-8900-010d57a94303.doc 10 DATED 2004 LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN to ** ______________________________________ LEASE of ** in the London Borough of Camden ______________________________________ Term: Commences: Rent: Years £ p.a. (with review) Alison Lowton Director of Law and Administration London Borough of Camden Town Hall, Judd Street London WC1H 9LP Ref: CLS/COM/AS/ Tel: 0207 860 5664 Doc Ref: s:\commercial law team\prop\as\ community centre lease terms\standard lease.doc D:\Docstoc\Working\pdf\6ff2c5e3-dad2-4fdf-8900-010d57a94303.doc 11