Housing Act 1969

Successive tenancies

7 Where a rent for a dwelling which is subject to a regulated tenancy is registered as mentioned in paragraph 1 of this Schedule and, during the period of delay imposed by paragraph 2 of this Schedule with respect to the rent, the tenant, or any person who might succeed him as a statutory tenant, becomes the tenant under a new regulated tenancy of the dwelling—

(a) the rent limit for any contractual period of the new regulated tenancy beginning during that period of delay shall be the amount to which, if the first-mentioned tenancy had continued, the rent payable thereunder could have been increased in accordance with this Schedule for a statutory period beginning at the same time, and in relation to such a contractual period the reference in section 47(3) of the [1968 c. 23.] Rent Act 1968 to section 20(2) of that Act shall be construed as a reference to this paragraph ; and

(b) in relation to any statutory period of the new tenancy beginning during that period of delay the preceding provisions of this Schedule shall have effect as if it were a statutory period of the first-mentioned tenancy.

8 Where—

(a) a controlled tenancy of a dwelling becomes a regulated tenancy by virtue of Part III of this Act; or

(b) a dwelling improved by works towards the cost of which a grant is payable under Part I of this Act is, at the time the works are completed, subject to a regulated tenancy ;

and the tenant, or any person who might succeed him as a statutory tenant, becomes the tenant under a new regulated tenancy of the dwelling, then, if during the continuance of the new regulated tenancy a rent for the dwelling is registered under Part IV of the [1968 c. 23.] Rent Act 1968 and the registration would be such a registration as is mentioned in paragraph 1 of this Schedule had the regulated tenancy mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph continued, paragraphs 1 to 6 of this Schedule shall apply as if it had continued, and paragraph 7(a) of this Schedule shall apply with the necessary modifications.