Rent Act 1957

Miscellaneous amendments and application of enactments

16 Sections nine and ten of the Act of 1920 (which relate to furnished lettings) shall cease to have effect.

17 In subsection (2) of section fourteen of the Act of 1920 (which, as amended, imposes a penalty of twenty pounds for offences in connection with rent books), for the words " twenty pounds " there shall be substituted the words " fifty pounds ".

18 In sections ten and eleven of the Act of 1933 (which confer on local authorities power to publish information and power to prosecute for offences) the references to the principal Acts shall be deemed to include references to the Landlord and Tenant (Rent Control) Act 1949, and this Act

19 The power conferred by section fourteen of the Act of 1933 to make regulations shall include power to make regulations prescribing forms for notices, certificates and other documents required or authorised under this Act and requiring such notices, certificates and documents to contain such information as may be specified in the regulations.

20 In subsection (3) of the said section fourteen (which imposes a penalty of ten pounds for the use of rent books not conforming to the prescribed requirements), for the words " ten pounds " there shall be substituted the words " fifty pounds ".

21 For paragraph (b) of the First Schedule to the Act of 1933 (which relates to possession without proof of alternative accommodation), the following paragraph shall be substituted—

“(h) the dwelling-house is reasonably required by the landlord (not being a landlord who has become landlord by purchasing the dwelling-house or any interest therein after the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-six) for occupation as a residence for—

(i) himself; or

(ii) any son or daughter of his over eighteen years of age; or

(iii) his father or mother.”

22 Section two of the Housing Act, 1936 (which implies, in contracts for letting at rents below specified limits, a condition as to fitness for human habitation), shall have effect, in relation to contracts entered into after the commencement of this Act, as if for the words " forty pounds " and " twenty-six pounds " there were substituted respectively the words " eighty pounds " and " fifty-two pounds ".

23 Section one hundred and sixty-seven of the Housing Act, 1936 (which relates to the service of notices) shall apply to the service of notices, certificates and documents required or authorised to be served under this Act, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, shall apply to the service of such notices, certificates and documents by virtue of subsection (5) of section seven of the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1938, as applied by this Schedule on an agent of the landlord or a person receiving the rent.

24 Subsection (5) of section seven of the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1938 (which enables documents to be served on agents or persons receiving rent and compels such persons to disclose the name and address of the landlord) shall apply for the purposes of this Act as if references therein to the principal Act included references to this Act.

25 (1) In subsection (2) of section sixteen of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act, 1951, there shall be added at the end of paragraph (bb) the words " or by or under section eleven of the Rent Act, 1957 " , but the Rent Acts shall not apply by virtue of this sub-paragraph where on the coming to an end of the tenancy qualifying for protection the tenant is entitled to retain possession by virtue of the Fourth Schedule to this Act.

(2) Nothing in section eleven of this Act or any order thereunder shall affect any statutory tenancy which by virtue of the said Act of 1951 is subsisting at the commencement of this Act or the date specified in the order as the date on which the Rent Acts are to cease to apply.

(3) At the end of subsection (2) of section sixteen of the said Act of 1951 there shall be added the following paragraph:—

“(f) that the tenancy qualifying for protection was a long tenancy as defined in section two of the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1954”.

(4) In subsection (4) of section nineteen of the said Act of 1951, for the words " as mentioned in subsection (2) of this section " there shall be substituted the words " as mentioned in subsection (1) of section sixteen or subsection (1) of section eighteen of this Act, or apply by virtue of section seventeen of this Act ".

26 (1) Section thirty-three of the Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954 (under which a tenancy where the interest of the landlord belongs to a housing association is not a controlled tenancy if the condition specified in subsection (2) of that section is fulfilled) shall have effect as if at the end of the said subsection (2) there were added the following:— “or

(c) the premises comprised in the tenancy were provided by the housing association with the assistance of a local authority or county council under subsection (3) of section ninety-three of the Housing Act, 1936, or were provided or improved by the housing association in accordance with arrangements made under section thirty-one of the Housing Act, 1949.”

(2) Subsection (8) of the said section thirty-three (which provides for the variation of arrangements between housing associations and local authorities) shall apply in relation to agreements and arrangements entered into before the commencement of this Act in connection with the assistance mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph or under section thirty-one of the said Act of 1949 as it applies in relation to the arrangements mentioned in that subsection.

27 (1) In section forty-three of the Landlord and Tenant Act. 1954, in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) after the words " 1920" there shall be inserted the words " or subsection (1) of section twenty-one of the Rent Act, 1957 ".

(2) In paragraph 1 of the Third Schedule to the said Act of 1954, for the words " the twenty-first day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty " in paragraph (a)'of the proviso there shall be substituted the words " the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-six ".