(1)Section 24 of the M1Housing Act 1988 (assured agricultural occupancies) shall be amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (2)(b) (under which a tenancy is an assured agricultural occupancy if it would be an assured tenancy, but for paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to that Act) there shall be inserted at the end “ and is not an excepted tenancy ”.
(3)After subsection (2) there shall be inserted—
“(2A)For the purposes of subsection (2)(b) above, a tenancy is an excepted tenancy if it is—
(a)a tenancy of an agricultural holding within the meaning of the M2Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 in relation to which that Act applies, or
(b)a farm business tenancy within the meaning of the M3Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.”.