Rent Act 1977 (c. 42)

Part VI E+W Rent Limit for Dwellings Let by Housing Associations, Housing Trusts and the Housing Corporation

Registration of rents E+W

87 Rents to be registrable. E+W

(1) There shall be a part of the register under Part IV of this Act in which rents may be registered for dwelling-houses which are let, or are, or are to be, available for letting, under a housing association tenancy.

(2) In relation to that part of the register the following (and no other) provisions of this Act:—

(a) sections 67, . . . F1 [F2 [F3 67A, 70, 70A] and 72].

(b) section 71, except subsection (3), and

(c) Schedules 11 . . . F1 .

shall apply in relation to housing association tenancies, and in their application to such tenancies shall have effect as if for any reference in those provisions to a regulated tenancy there were substituted a reference to a housing association tenancy.

(3)—(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(6) A rent registered in any part of the register for a dwelling-house which becomes, or ceases to be, one subject to a housing association tenancy, shall be as effective as if it were registered in any other part of the register.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words repealed by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61, 75:1), s. 140(2), Sch. 18

F2 Words substituted with saving by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), s. 61(3)(a)(8)

F3 Words in s. 87(2)(a) substituted (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/651, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 para. 6

F4 S. 87(3)–(5) repealed with saving by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), s. 61(3)(a)(8), Sch. 26

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 87 amended by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), s. 74, Sch. 9 para. 3