Act 16 Land Act 1998 (4) The registered owner shall, within six weeks from the date of receipt of the application or such longer time as may be prescribed, either grant a consent to the transaction in the prescribed form, with or without conditions, or refuse consent to the transaction. (5) Where the registered owner refuses to grant consent to the transaction or grants consent subject to conditions which the tenant by occupancy obiects to. or fails within the orescribed time to give any decision on the application, the tenant by occupancy may appeal to the Land Tribunal against the refusal. (6) For the purposes of appealing under this section, the conditions or as the case may be, the failure to give a decision referred to in subsection (5) of this section shall be taken to be a refusal. (7) The Land Tribunal shall, in the exercise of its functions under this section, grant the consent with or without conditions which may include or depart from conditions imposed by the owner, or refuse consent to the transaction or may adjourn the proceedings to enable the parties to reach an agreement on the matter. (8) A copy of every consent, signed by the owner or where the consent has been granted by the Land Tribunal, by the Secretary of the Tribunal, shall be delivered or sent to the Recorder who shall keep a record in the prescribed form of all such consents. (9) No transaction to which this section applies shall be valid and effective to pass any interest in land if it is undertaken without a consent as provided for in this section; and the Recorder shall not make any entry on the record of any such transaction in respect of which there is no consent. Option to 36. (I) A tenant by occupancy who wishes to assign the purchase. tenancy shall, subject to the provisions of this section, give the first option of taking the assignment of the tenancy to the owner oftheJand. 42