Modifications of Rent Act in relation to furnished and other tenancies
4 Advance application for registration of a new rent.
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C13
At the beginning of subsection (3) of section 40 of the M1Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 (no application for registration of a new rent until three years after a previous registration) there shall be inserted the words “
Subject to subsection (3A) below
”
and at the end of that subsection there shall be added the following subsection:—
3A
An application such as is mentioned in subsection (3) above which is made by the landlord alone and is so made within the last three months of the period of three years referred to in that subsection may be entertained before the expiry of that period, notwithstanding that the application is not made upon any of the grounds mentioned in that subsection.
C14
At the beginning of subsection (1) of section 44 of the said Act of 1971 (effect of registration of rent) there shall be inserted the words “
Subject to subsection (1A) below
”
and at the end of that subsection there shall be added the following subsection:—
1A
Where, by virtue of subsection (3A) of section 40 above, an application is made before the expiry of the period of three years referred to in subsection (3) of that section, subsection (1) above shall have effct as if for the reference to that date of the application there were substituted a reference to the first day after the expiry of that period of three years.