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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65599</law_id><section_number>8.2A-406</section_number><catch_line>Procedure on excused performance</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.2A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Leases</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Performance of Lease Contract; Repudiated, Substituted and Excused</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> If the lessee receives notification of a <span class="dictionary">material</span> or indefinite delay or an allocation justified under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Excused performance" href="/8.2A-405/">8.2A-405</a>, the lessee may by written notification to the lessor as to any goods involved, and with respect to all of the goods if under an installment lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> the value of the whole lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> is substantially impaired (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Installment lease contracts; rejection and default" href="/8.2A-510/">8.2A-510</a>): <a id="paragraph-238444" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-406/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1a" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> Terminate the lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> (pursuant to subsection (2) of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Cancellation and termination and effect of cancellation, termination, rescission, or fraud on rights and remedies" href="/8.2A-505/">8.2A-505</a>; or <a id="paragraph-238445" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-406/#1a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1b" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Except in a finance lease that is not a consumer lease, modify the lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> by accepting the available quota in substitution, with due allowance from the rent payable for the balance of the lease term for the deficiency but without further right against the lessor. <a id="paragraph-238446" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-406/#1b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> If, after receipt of a notification from the lessor under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Excused performance" href="/8.2A-405/">8.2A-405</a>, the lessee fails so to modify the lease agreement within a reasonable time not exceeding thirty days, the lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> lapses with respect to any deliveries affected. <a id="paragraph-238447" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-406/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1991, c. 536.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
