Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976I18

1

The Rent (Agriculture) Act 197622 is amended as follows.

2

In section 423 (statutory tenants and tenancies)—

a

at the end of subsection (4), insert “or, in the case of a dwelling-house in Wales, will be entitled to a secure contract of the dwelling-house by succession”;

b

after subsection (6), insert—

7

In this section, “secure contract” has the same meaning as in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1) (see section 8 of that Act).

3

In section 3324 (suspension of condition attached to planning permission)—

a

in subsection (2), after “a tenancy to which subsection (3) below applies”, insert “, or an occupation contract to which subsection (3A) below applies”;

b

after subsection (3), insert—

3A

This subsection applies to an occupation contract which immediately before the appointed day was an assured agricultural occupancy, within the meaning of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50).

c

after subsection (5), insert—

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In this section, the following terms have the same meaning as in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1)—

  • “appointed day” (see section 242 of that Act);

  • “occupation contract” (see section 7 of that Act).