Rent Act 1977

79 Register of rents under restricted contracts. E+W

(1) The [F1 president of every rent assessment panel] shall prepare and keep up to date a register for the purposes of this Part of this Act and shall make the register available for inspection in such place or places and in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct.

(2) The register shall be so prepared and kept up to date as to contain, with regard to any contract relating to a dwelling situated in the area of the [F2 rent assessment panel] and under which a rent is payable which has been approved, reduced or increased under section 78 of this Act, entries of—

(a) the prescribed particulars with regard to the contract;

(b) a specification of the dwelling to which the contract relates; and

(c) the rent as approved, reduced or increased by the rent tribunal, and, in a case in which the approval, reduction or increase is limited to rent payable in respect of a particular period, a specification of that period.

(3) Where any rates in respect of a dwelling are borne by the lessor or any person having any title superior to that of the lessor, the amount to be entered in the register under this section as the rent payable for the dwelling shall be the same as if the rates were not so borne; but the fact that they are so borne shall be noted in the register.

[F3 (3A) The amount to be entered in the register under this section as the rent payable for a dwelling shall include any sums payable by the lessee to the lessor in respect of council tax, whether or not those sums are separate from the sums payable for the occupation of the dwelling or are payable under separate agreements.]

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(5) A copy of an entry in the register certified under the hand of an officer duly authorised in that behalf by the [F5 president of the rent assessment panel concerned] shall be receivable in evidence in any court and in any proceedings.

(6) A person requiring such a certified copy shall be entitled to obtain it on payment of the prescribed fee.

[F6 (6A) Every local authority shall, before the expiry of the period of three months beginning of the commencement of paragraph 44 of Schedule 25 to the Housing Act 1980, send to the president of the appropriate rent assessment panel the register previously kept by the authority under this section.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), Sch. 25 Pt. I para. 43(a)

F2 Words substituted by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), Sch. 25 Pt. I para. 43(b)

F3 S. 79(3A) inserted (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/651, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 9

F4 S. 79(4) repealed by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), Sch. 26

F5 Words substituted by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), Sch. 25 Pt. I para. 43(d)

F6 S. 79(6A) inserted by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), Sch. 25 Pt. I para. 44