Counter-Inflation Act 1973

14 Protected tenancies

(1) For paragraph (a) of section 1(1) of the [1968 c. 23.] Rent Act 1968 (protected tenancies) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—

“(a) where the appropriate day in relation to the dwelling-house fell before the date of the passing of the Counter-Inflation Act 1973—

(i) the dwelling-house on the said appropriate day had a rateable value exceeding, if it is in Greater London, £400 or, if it is elsewhere, £200, and

(ii) the dwelling-house on the date of the passing of the said Act of 1973 had a rateable value exceeding if it is in Greater London, £600, or, if it is elsewhere, £300, and

(iii) the dwelling-house on 1st April 1973 has a rateable value exceeding, if it is in Greater London, £1,500 or, if it is elsewhere, £750, or

(aa) where the appropriate day in relation to the dwelling-house falls on or after the date of the passing of the said Act of 1973, but before 1st April 1973—

(i) the dwelling-house on the said appropriate day had a rateable value exceeding, if it is in Greater London, £600, or, if it is elsewhere, £300, and

(ii) the dwelling-house on 1st April 1973 has a rateable value exceeding, if it is in Greater London, £1,500, or, if it is elsewhere, £750, or

(aaa) where the appropriate day in relation to the dwelling-house falls on or after 1st April 1973, the dwelling-house on the said appropriate day has or had a rateable value exceeding, if it is in Greater London, £1,500 or, if it is elsewhere, £750, or.”

(2) In section 1(3) of the Rent Act 1968 (questions on limits of rateable value) for the words " subsection (1)(a) " there shall be substituted the words " subsection (1) ".

(3) So much of section 89 of the [1972 c. 47.] Housing Finance Act 1972 as relates to the said section 1 of the Rent Act 1968 (being provisions superseded by subsection (1) above) shall cease to have effect.

(4) Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect for supplementing this section, and in that Schedule this section is referred to as " the principal section ".

(5) References to this Act in sections 15 to 21 of this Act, and in Schedules 1 to 4 to this Act, shall not include references to this section.