SCHEDULEModification of Rent Act 1968 and Corresponding Scottish Acts

PART IModifications of M1Rent Act 1968

Steps mentioned in certain notices under this Act to count as improvements for certain purposes of Rent Act 1968

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(1)

In relation to a dwelling-house consisting of or comprised in premises—

(a)

with respect to which there has been issued a fire certificate covering (in whatever terms) the use of the dwelling-house as a dwelling ; or

(b)

which are the subject of an application for a fire certificate specifying as a use of the premises which it is desired to have covered by the certificate a use such that, if a certificate covering that use were issued, it would cover (in whatever terms) the use of the dwelling-house as a dwelling,

section 45 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Rent Act 1968 (which relate to certificates of fair rent) shall have effect as if in subsection (1)(a) of that section the reference to making improvements in the dwelling-house included a reference to taking in relation to the relevant building any steps mentioned in a notice served, in connection with the premises under section 5(4), 8(4) or (5) or 12(8)(b) of this Act; and any step mentioned in such a notice shall for the purposes of the said section 45 and Schedule 7, in their application to such a dwelling-house, be treated (whether or not apart from this paragraph it would be so treated) as an improvement.

(2)

In this paragraph " dwelling-house " has the same meaning as in the Rent Act 1968.