7Phasing of rent increases where rent for dwelling-house under regulated tenancy is registered
(1)Subject to the following provisions of this section, and to section 9 of this Act, where a rent for a dwelling-house under a regulated tenancy is registered (whether before or after the commencement of this Act), the rent for any rental period (whether contractual or statutory), beginning after the commencement of this Act and during the period of delay imposed in terms of Schedule 2 to this Act, may only be increased to the extent permitted in terms of that Schedule ; and accordingly—
(a)any notice of increase under section 21 (2) (b) of the 1971 Act; or
(b)any tenancy agreement, or any rent agreement with a tenant having security of tenure within the meaning of section 42(1) of the 1972 Act,
served or made before or after such commencement, which purports to increase the rent payable at any time during that period above that permitted at that time in terms of that Schedule, shall have effect to increase the rent to the extent so permitted but no further.
(2)This section shall not apply to the rent under any regulated tenancy of a dwelling-house which was granted after the commencement of this Act and after the date of registration of the rent if the person to whom it was granted was neither the tenant under any previous regulated tenancy of that dwelling-house nor any person who might have succeeded such a tenant as a statutory tenant of the dwelling-house.
(3)This section shall not apply to any rent (whether registered before or after the commencement of this Act) which is subject to phasing under section 63 of the 1972 Act as applied by paragraph 14(2)(c) of Schedule 3 to the [1974 c. 44.] Housing Act 1974 (certain housing association, etc., tenancies).
(4)The following provisions shall cease to have effect—
(a)section 79 of the 1971 Act and Schedule 13 thereto;
(b)section 37 of the 1972 Act and Schedule 6 thereto.
(5)Nothing in this section or in Schedule 2 to this Act shall prevent or limit an increase in any sums included in a rent which are variable by virtue of section 43(4) of the 1971 Act (variable rents).
(6)Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect; and, unless the context otherwise requires, any expression used in this section or in Schedule 2 to this Act which is also used in Part III or IV of the 1971 Act shall have the same meaning as-in those Parts.