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2For section 18 there is substituted the following section—
(1)It shall be the duty of every authority to maintain a scheme for granting, to persons who occupy as their homes dwellings let to them by the authority, rebates from rent calculated in accordance with the provisions of the scheme by reference to their needs and resources.
(2)A scheme under this section is referred to in this Part of this Act as a ' rebate scheme'.
(3)No rebate from the rent for any dwelling shall be granted by virtue of this section to any person—
(a)if he occupies the dwelling under a licence which was granted as a temporary expedient to a person who entered it, or any other land, as a trespasser (whether or not before the grant another licence of that or any other dwelling has been granted to him); or
(b)if he occupies the dwelling in pursuance of a contract of service with the authority the terms of which require that he shall be provided with a dwelling at a rent specified in the contract; or
(c)if Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (security of business tenants) applies to his tenancy.
(4)Where a person who is not the tenant of a dwelling has a licence to occupy the dwelling, granted for a consideration, this Part of this Act, so far as it relates to rebate schemes, applies to the licence as it applies to a tenancy and, as so applied, has effect as if expressions appropriate to a licence were substituted for those appropriate to a tenancy.”.
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