Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976

1976 CHAPTER 80

An Act to afford security of tenure for agricultural workers housed by their employers, and their successors; to make further provision as to the rents and other conditions of tenure of such persons, including amendments of the Rent Act 1968; to impose duties on housing authorities as respects agricultural workers and their successors; and for purposes connected with those matters.

[22nd November 1976]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Act: certain powers transferred (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1

C2 Act amended by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51), Sch. 8 paras. 7—10; excluded by Local Goverment, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), Sch. 28 para. 10 and New Towns Act 1981 (c. 64), s. 22

C3 Act amended by Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 (c. 19, SIF 49:5), s. 1(6)

C4 Definitions of “statutory tenant in his own right”

“statutory tenant by succession” (within the meaning of the Act) modified by Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 (c. 19, SIF 49:5), s. 7, Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 4

Definition of statutory tenancy (within the meaning of the Act) extended (1.10.1997) by 1996 c. 27, ss. 53, 63(4), Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 9(3); S.I. 1997/1892, art. 3(1)(a)

C5 Act excluded by Housing Act 1985 (c. 68, SIF 61), ss. 264(5), 270(3), 276, 286(3), 307, 368(6) and Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 78, Sch. 10 para. 8

C6 Act modified by S.I. 1990/776, arts. 2(2), 5(2)(d)

Act modified (1.10.1997) by 1996 c. 27, s. 30(4)(a) (with Sch. 9 paras. 8-10); S.I. 1997/1892, art. 3(1)(a)

C7 Act restricted (1.11.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 59(2)(c)(ii) (with s. 94(2), 95); S.I. 1993/2134, arts. 2, 5(a).

Act excluded (10.11.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 169, Sch. 20 Pt. II para. 8; S.I. 1993/2762, art. 3.

Act excluded (1.10.1998) by 1975 c. 70, Sch. 4 Pt. IV para. 16 (as inserted (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 127, Sch. 13 para. 3 (with s. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 4)

Act excluded (25.11.1998 for certain purposes and otherwise 3.7.2000) by 1998 c. 45, s. 23, Sch. 6 para. 5; S.I. 1998/2952, art. 2; S.I. 2000/1173, art. 2

C8 Act excluded (6.4.2006 for E.) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), ss. 33, 270(4), 270(5)(a) (with s. 38); S.I. 2006/1060, art. 2(1)(a) (with Sch.)

Commencement Information

I1 Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 1(6); Act wholly in force at 1.1.1977.