SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4E+W Statutory Tenants: Succession

Part IE+W Amendments of Schedule 1 to M1Rent Act 1977

Marginal Citations

2E+W At the end of paragraph 2 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—

(2)For the purposes of this paragraph, a person who was living with the original tenant as his or her wife or husband shall be treated as the spouse of the original tenant.

(3)If, immediately after the death of the original tenant, there is, by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) above, more than one person who fulfils the conditions in sub-paragraph (1) above, such one of them as may be decided by agreement or, in default of agreement, by the county court shall be treated as the surviving spouse for the purposes of this paragraph.