National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990

The Housing Act 1988 and the Rent Act 1977

19 (1) This paragraph applies to a tenancy—

(a) which was entered into before the appointed day; and

(b) which is of land in England or Wales which, immediately before the appointed day, was functional health service land.

(2) If and so long as the interest of the landlord under a tenancy to which this paragraph applies continues on and after the appointed day to belong in fact either to the Secretary of State or to an NHS trust, it shall be taken to belong to a government department for the purposes of—

(a) paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 to the [1988 c. 50.] Housing Act 1988 (Crown tenancies entered into after the commencement of Part I of that Act not to be assured tenancies); or

(b) section 13 of the [1977 c. 42.] Rent Act 1977 (earlier Crown tenancies not to be protected tenancies).

(3) Expressions used in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) above have the same meaning as in Part I of the Housing Act 1988 or, as the case may require, the Rent Act 1977.