Fixtures, etc., of tenant

The doctrine of the common law, “quicquid solo plantatur, solo cedit”, shall have no application in Belize to tenant’s fixtures of any kind, and all such fixtures affixed to a tenement by a tenant and any building erected by him thereon for which he is not under any law or otherwise entitled to 13 compensation, and which is not so affixed or erected in pursuance of some obligation in that behalf or instead of some fixture or building belonging to the landlord, shall be the property of and be removable by the tenant before or after the termination of the tenancy, Provided that, (a) before the removal of any fixture or building, the tenant shall pay all rent owing by him and shall perform or satisfy all other obligations to the landlord in respect of the tenement; (b) in the removal of any fixture or building, the tenant shall not do any avoidable damage to any other building or to any part of the tenement; (c) immediately after the removal of any fixture or building the tenant shall make good all damage occasioned to any other building or to any part of the tenement by the removal; (d) the tenant shall not remove any fixture or building without giving one month’s previous notice in writing to the landlord of his intention to remove it; (e) at any time before the expiration of the notice of removal, the landlord, by notice in writing given by him to the tenant, may elect to purchase any fixture or building comprised in the notice of removal, and any fixture or building thus elected to be purchased shall be left by the tenant, and shall become the property of the landlord, who shall pay to the tenant the fair value thereof to an incoming tenant of the tenement, and any difference as to the value shall be settled by the magistrate 14 of the judicial district in which the tenement lies on application made by either the landlord or the tenant.