Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976

1. Introductory Text

2. Part I Preliminary

   1. 1. Interpretation and commencement

   2. Protected occupancies

      1. 2. Protected occupiers in their own right

      2. 3. Protected occupiers by succession

   3. Statutory tenancies

      1. 4. Statutory tenants and tenancies

      2. 5. No statutory tenancy where landlord's interest belongs to Crown or to local authority, etc

3. Part II Security of Tenure

   1. Protected occupancies and statutory tenancies

      1. 6. Grounds for possession

      2. 7. Discretion of court in giving possession

      3. 8. Restriction on levy of distress for rent

      4. 9. Effect of determination of superior tenancy, etc

   2. Statutory tenancies

      1. 10. Terms and conditions

      2. 11. Agreed rents

      3. 12. Provisional rents

      4. 13. Application for registration of rent

      5. 14. Registered rents

      6. 15. Phasing of rent increases

      7. 16. Notices of increase

   3. General provisions

      1. 17. Adjustment for differences in lengths of rental periods

      2. 18. Regulations

      3. 19. Interpretation of Part II

4. Part III Protected Occupancies and Statutory Tenancies: Supplemental

   1. Recovery of rent

      1. 20. Avoidance of requirements for advance payment of rent

      2. 21. Recovery from landlord of sums paid in excess of recoverable rent

      3. 22. Rectification of rent books in light of determination of recoverable rent

   2. Miscellaneous

      1. 23. Tenant sharing accommodation with persons other than landlord

      2. 24. Certain sublettings not to exclude any part of the sublessor's premises from protection

      3. 25. Service of notices on landlord's agents

      4. 26. Jurisdiction and procedure

5. Part IV Rehousing

   1. 27. Applications to housing authority concerned

   2. 28. Duty of housing authority concerned

   3. 29. Agricultural dwelling-house advisory committees

6. Part V Power to Obtain Information

   1. 30. Information about housing accommodation

   2. 31. Kinds of information obtainable

7. Part VI Miscellaneous and Supplemental

   1. 32. Rent allowances

   2. 33. Suspension of condition attached to planning permission

   3. 34. Interpretation

   4. 35. Isles of Scilly

   5. 36. Application to Crown property

   6. 37. Offences by bodies corporate

   7. 38. Prosecution of offences

   8. 39. Expenses

   9. 40. Short title, etc

8. 1. Schedule 1

      Index of general definitions

   2. Schedule 2

      Meaning of " relevant licence " and " relevant tenancy "

   3. Schedule 3

      Protected occupiers in their own right

   4. Schedule 4

      Grounds for possession of dwelling-house subject to protected occupancy or statutory tenancy

   5. Schedule 5

      Terms of the statutory tenancy

   6. Schedule 6

      Phasing of rent increases

   7. Schedule 7

      Amendments of Housing Finance Act 1972

   8. Schedule 8

      Consequential and minor amendments

   9. Schedule 9

      Transitional