Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1972

44 Rent agreements: special provisions where grant-aided improvements are carried out

(1) This section applies where a grant under Part II of the Act of 1968 has been approved in respect of works to be carried out in a dwelling-house let on or subject to a regulated tenancy.

(2) If a rent agreement with a tenant having security of tenure Part V of the dwelling-house takes effect—

(a) on or after 1st January 1973, and in the period beginning with the time when the tenant's consent to the works was sought by the landlord and ending one year after the completion of the works, and

(b) at a time when no rent is registered for the dwelling-house under Part IV of the Act of 1971 and the increase of rent effected by the agreement is wholly or partly to take account of the carrying out of the works,

the requirements of subsection (4) below shall be observed as respects the agreement.

(3) The provisions of this section are without prejudice to the requirements imposed by section 42 above.

(4) The requirements mentioned in subsection (2) above are that the agreement—

(a) states that a grant has been approved, and

(b) explains that, if the grant became payable, and a rent was registered, the rent increase up to the registered rent would be phased as follows, that is—

(i) if the increase exceeded £1.50 per week, the rent would be increased by three annual increments, each of one-third of the total increase,

(ii) if it were less than £1.50 per week, the rent would be increased by annual increments of up to £0.50 per week up to the registered rent.