Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951

19 Limitation on application of Rent Acts by virtue of sections sixteen to eighteen

(1) Where by virtue of any of the three last preceding sections, or by virtue of the succeeding provisions of this section, the operation of the Rent Restrictions Acts in relation to any premises is extended or modified, the extension or modification shall not affect any tenancy of those premises other than—

(a) the statutory tenancy arising by virtue of section sixteen or seventeen of this Act on the ending of a tenancy qualifying for protection (as defined in section fourteen of this Act), or arising by virtue of the last preceding section at the beginning of a period of relevant service or at the commencement of this Act, and

(b) any subsequent statutory tenancy arising on the ending of a statutory tenancy that falls within the preceding paragraph, or within this paragraph,

and shall not affect rent payable in respect of any period before the beginning of the statutory tenancy arising as mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection or anything done or omitted theretofore.

(2) In relation to premises to which the Rent Restrictions Acts apply as mentioned in subsection (1) of either section sixteen or section eighteen of this Act, or apply by virtue of section seventeen of this Act, paragraph (h) of the First Schedule to the Rent Act of 1933 (which excepts a landlord who purchased after the date therein mentioned from provisions as to possession for occupation for himself or certain relatives of his) shall have effect with the substitution of references to the seventeenth day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-one for references to the date therein mentioned.

(3) In the application to any premises of the Rent Restrictions Acts as mentioned in the last preceding subsection—

(a) they shall have effect subject to the modifications set out in the first column of the First Schedule to the Rent Act of 1939 (being modifications subject to which, by virtue of section three of that Act, they apply in relation to dwelling-houses brought within them by that section) if apart from this subsection they would not so have effect, but

(b) whether apart from this subsection they would so have effect or not, those modifications shall apply (except as provided by the last preceding subsection) with the substitution, for references to the passing or the commencement of the Rent Act of 1939, of references to the beginning of the statutory tenancy referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section.

(4) Subsection (6) of section twelve of the Rent Act of 1920 (which provides that that Act shall continue to apply to premises to which it has once become applicable) shall not apply as respects any premises to which the Rent Restrictions Acts apply as mentioned in subsection (2) of this section.

(5) A mortgage which, if the three last preceding sections had not been enacted, would not be a mortgage to which the Rent Restrictions Acts apply shall be deemed not to be such a mortgage.

In this subsection the expression " mortgage " has the same meaning as in the Rent Act of 1920.

(6) References in this section to premises to which the Rent Restrictions Acts apply by virtue of section seventeen of this Act are references to premises to which those Acts apply in accordance with the provisions of section eight of the Rent Act of 1949, in a case where the said section eight applies as mentioned in subsection (1) of the said section seventeen.