Rent Act 1977

87 Rents to be registrable

(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, 69 and 70,

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

(c) Schedules 11 and 12,

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) Registration in that part of the register shall take effect on the date of registration (subject to paragraph 10 of Schedule 24 to this Act).

(4) From the date of registration any previous registration of a rent for the dwelling-house shall cease to have effect.

(5) Where by virtue of subsection (4) of section 67 of this Act (as modified by subsection (2) above)—

(a) an application is made before the expiry of the period of 3 years referred to in subsection (3) of that section, and

(b) a new rent is registered before the expiry of that period of 3 years,

the references in subsections (3) and (4) above, in subsections (2) and (3) of section 89, and the last reference in section 90(2), of this Act, to the date of registration shall be construed as references to the first day after the expiry of that period of 3 years.

(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.