Housing Act 1985

504 Further conditions as to letting of dwelling.

(1) The conditions referred to in section 503(1) (power of local housing authority to impose further conditions) are—

(a) that the dwelling will be let or available for letting on a regulated tenancy or a restricted contract;

(b) that the owner of the dwelling will, if the authority serve notice requiring him to do so, give the authority, within the period of 21 days beginning with the date on which the notice is served, a certificate that the condition set out in paragraph (a) is being fulfilled;

(c) that any tenant of the dwelling will, if required to do so by the owner, give him such information as he may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling him to comply with the condition set out in paragraph (b);

(d) that, if on the certified date there is no registered rent for the dwelling and no application or reference is pending, an application or reference will be made before the expiry of the period of 14 days beginning with the first day, not being earlier than the certified date, on which the dwelling is or becomes subject to a regulated tenancy or let on a restricted contract;

(e) that any such application or reference, either pending or made as mentioned in paragraph(d), will be diligently proceeded with and not withdrawn; and

(f) that no premium (within the meaning of Part IX of the [1977 c. 42.] Rent Act 1977) will be required as a condition of the grant, renewal or continuance, on or after the certified date, of a lease or agreement for a lease of, or restricted contract relating to, the dwelling.

(2) In subsection (1)

(a) “regulated tenancy” has the same meaning as in the Rent Act 1977,

(b) “registered rent”, in relation to a dwelling subject to, or available for letting on, a regulated tenancy, means a rent registered under Part IV of that Act, and in relation to a dwelling let or available for letting on a restricted contract, means a rent registered in the register kept under section 79 of that Act, and

(c) “application” and “reference”, in relation to the registration of a rent, mean, respectively, an application to the rent officer and a reference of the restricted contract to the rent tribunal.