Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976

27 Applications to housing authority concerned. E+W

(1) An application may be made by the occupier of land used for agriculture to the housing authority concerned (“the authority”) on the ground that—

(a) vacant possession is or will be needed of a dwelling-house which is subject to a protected occupancy or statutory tenancy [F1 or an assured agricultural occupancy], or which is let on or subject to a tenancy to which subsection (2) below applies, in order to house a person who is or is to be employed in agriculture by the applicant, and that person’s family,

(b) the applicant is unable to provide, by any reasonable means, suitable alternative accommodation for the occupier of the dwelling-house, and

(c) the authority ought, in the interests of efficient agriculture, to provide the suitable alternative accommodation.

(2) This subsection applies to any tenancy which is a protected or statutory tenancy for the purposes of [F2 the M1 Rent Act 1977] and which—

(a) if it were a tenancy at a low rent, and

(b) if (where relevant) any earlier tenancy granted to the tenant, or to a member of his family, had been a tenancy at a low rent,

would be a protected occupancy or statutory tenancy.

[F3 (3) In this Act the “housing authority concerned” is the local housing authority within the meaning of the Housing Act 1985 [F4 and assured agricultural occupancy has the same meaning as in Chapter III of Part I of the Housing Act 1988].]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words inserted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 75:1), s. 26(a)

F2 Words substituted by Rent Act 1977 (c. 42), Sch. 23 para. 77

F3 S. 27(3) substituted by Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 71, SIF 61), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 33(3)

F4 Words added by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 75:1), s. 26(b)

Marginal Citations

M1 1977 c. 42.