Rent Act 1977

13E+WIn section 2 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, at the end add the following subsection—

(7)In determining whether a long tenancy is, or at any time was, a tenancy at a low rent there shall be disregarded such part (if any) of the sums payable by the tenant as is expressed (in whatever terms) to be payable in respect of rates, services, repairs, maintenance, or insurance, unless it could not have been regarded by the parties as a part so payable. In this section “long tenancy” does not include a tenancy which is, or may become, terminable before the end of the term by notice given to the tenant.