SCHEDULE 1

PART 2ASSUMPTIONS ETC

Housing associations and charities7

1

Where the landlord is a housing association or a charity, the rent officer shall assume that the landlord is not such a body.

2

The rent officer shall not take into account the rent under any tenancy where the landlord is a housing association or a charity.

3

In this paragraph—

a

“charity” comprises—

i

a charity with the same meaning as in the Charities Act 199315; and

ii

a Scottish charity as defined in section 1(7) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 199016; and

b

“housing association” has the same meaning as in the Housing Associations Act 198517.