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(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, a local authority shall not increase the income receivable from the standard rent of any house by more than £39 in any period of 12 months, except that any such increase made on or before 1st October 1972 shall not exceed, for the year 1972-73, £32 plus, where the amount of income for the year 1972-73 per house produced by the increase or increases in standard rents which the authority are required to make under section 29(1) of this Act exceeds £24, an amount equal to that excess.
(2)The restrictions on any increase imposed by subsection (1) above shall not apply where a lease is granted to a new tenant of the house or where an improvement has been made in the house.
(3)In subsection (2) above " improvement" includes structural alteration, extension or addition and the provision of additional fixtures or fittings, but does not include anything done by way of decoration or repair.
(4)This section shall apply to a development corporation or the Scottish Special Housing Association as it applies to a local authority except that in subsection (1) the words from " plus " to the end shall be omitted.
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