ST KITTS & NEVIS Law and Practice Contributed by: Dahlia Joseph Rowe and Daisy Joseph Andall, Joseph Rowe, Attorneys-at-Law
where such person is a lodger or subtenant, the court is satisfied that the tenant has not, before the making or giving of the notice to quit, taken such steps as he or she ought reasonably to have taken for the removal of the lodger or subtenant. • The premises, being a dwelling house or a public or commercial building, are reasonably required by the landlord for: (a) immediate occupation as a residence for himself or herself or for some person wholly dependent on him or her or for any person bona fide residing with him or her, or for any person in his or her whole-time employment; (b) use by himself or herself for business, trade or professional purposes; or (c) a combination of the purposes in the two sub-bullet points above. • The premises, being building land, are rea - sonably required by the landlord for: (a) the erection of a building to be used for any of the purposes specified in bullet point four of this section; (b) use by himself or herself for business, trade or professional purposes not involv - ing the erection of a building; or (c) a combination of such purposes. • The premises, being a dwelling house or a public or commercial building, are required for the purpose of being repaired, improved or rebuilt, and an undertaking is given that the landlord will, immediately after the completion of the repairs, improvements or rebuilding, give the tenant an opportunity for renewing his or her tenancy at such rent as the rent commissioners may order. • The premises are required for public pur - poses. • The dwelling house, or the public or commer - cial building, or the building erected by the
tenant on building land, as the case may be, is required by law to be demolished. • The tenant has sublet, or parted with the possession of, the whole or any part of the premises without obtaining the consent of the landlord or being expressly authorised by or under the tenancy agreement or lease so to do. • The tenant of a dwelling house, or of build - ing land on which the building erected by the tenant is used or is intended to be used mainly as a dwelling, uses the house or build - ing mainly for business, trade or professional purposes without obtaining the consent of the landlord or being authorised by or under the tenancy agreement or lease so to do. • In the case of building land, the building erected thereon has been sold under distress for rent. • The dwelling house has been let to a tenant in the employment of the landlord on condi - tion that the tenancy shall subsist only during the continuance of such employment, or only until the expiry of a period not exceeding one month after the termination of such employ - ment, and the employment has terminated, or such period has expired, as the case may be. • The dwelling house has been let to a tenant in the employment of the landlord in conse - quence of that employment, and the employ - ment has ended or the landlord has offered the tenant suitable alternative accommoda - tion. Notwithstanding the aforementioned provisions, a court can make an order forcefully evicting a tenant from the premises if it considers it rea - sonable to make such an order based on the circumstances of the case. There have been no amendments to the leg - islation that alter the position that existed with
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