Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976

Housing Act 1964 (c. 56)

10 In section 74(2) of the Housing Act 1964 (general effect of control order), after the words "the Rent Act 1968" insert the words " and the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 ".

11 In section 75 of the Housing Act 1964 (effect of control order on persons occupying house), for subsection (3) substitute the following subsections—

“(3) Section 5 of the Rent Act 1968, that section as applied by Schedule 2 to the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 and section 5(2) to (4) of the said Act of 1976 (which exclude lettings by local authorities from being protected or statutory tenancies within the meaning of the said Act of 1968, and from being protected occupancies or statutory tenancies within the meaning of the said Act of 1976) shall not apply to any lease or agreement under which a person to whom this section applies is occupying any part of the house.

(3A) If immediately before the control order came into force any person to whom this section applies was occupying part of the house under—

(a) a protected or statutory tenancy, within the meaning of the Rent Act 1968, or

(b) a protected occupancy or statutory tenancy, within the meaning of the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976,

nothing in this Part of this Act shall prevent the continuance of that tenancy or occupancy or affect the continued operation of the said Act of 1968 or, as the case may be, of the said Act of 1976 in relation to that tenancy or occupancy after the coming into force of the control Order.”