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Housing Act 1988

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6(1)In section 18 of that Act (protection of tenure, in connection with employment, under a licence or rent-free letting), in subsection (1), as it applies otherwise than to Scotland,—

(a)for the words “Part VII of the Rent Act 1977” there shall be substituted “Chapter I of Part I of the Housing Act 1988”; and

(b)for the words “subject to a statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Rent Act 1977” there shall be substituted “let on a statutory periodic tenancy which is an assured tenancy”.

(2)In that subsection, as it applies to Scotland,—

(a)for the words “the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971” there shall be substituted the words “sections 12 to 31 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988”, and

(b)for the words “subject to a statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971” there shall be substituted the words “let on a statutory assured tenancy”.

(3)Subsection (2) of that section shall be omitted.

(4)In subsection (3) of that section, as it applies otherwise than to Scotland, at the end of paragraph (c) there shall be added or

(d)is a dwelling-house which is let on or subject to an assured agricultural occupancy within the meaning of Part I of the Housing Act 1988 which is not an assured tenancy.

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