Version Superseded: 01/12/2022
Point in time view as at 01/12/2016. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Rent Act 1977, Section 93 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 10 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)Subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, where a housing association tenancy is a weekly or other periodical tenancy, the rent payable to the housing association or, as the case may be, the housing trust or the [F1Regulator of Social Housing] [F2or the Secretary of State]. . . (in this section called “the landlord”) may, without the tenancy being terminated, be increased with effect from the beginning of any rental period by a written notice of increase [F3specifying the date on which the increase is to take effect and given by the landlord to the tenant not later than four weeks before that date.].
[F4(2)Where notice of increase is given under subsection (1) above and the tenant, before the date specified in the notice of increase, gives a valid notice to quit, the notice of increase does not take effect unless the tenant, with the written agreement of the landlord, withdraws his notice to quit before that date.]
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5
(4)This section shall apply to a tenancy notwithstanding that the letting took place before the coming into force of this Act.
(5)Nothing in this section shall authorise any rent to be increased above the rent limit, and any reference in section 88 of this Act to the variation by agreement of the rent recoverable under a tenancy shall include a reference to variation under this section.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 93(1) substituted (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 12 (with art. 6, Sch. 3)
F2Words in s. 93(1) inserted (15.1.1999) by S.I. 1999/61, art. 2, Sch. para. 1(4)
F3Words substituted by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), Sch. 10 para. 5(2)(5) in relation to notices of increase given after 28.11.1980
F4S. 93(2) substituted by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), Sch. 10 para. 5(3)(5) in relation to notices of increase given after 28.11.1980
F5S. 93(3) repealed by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), Sch. 10 para. 5(4)(5), Sch. 26 in relation to notices of increase given after 28.11.1980
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 93(1) modified (1.12.2008) by Transfer of Housing Corporation Functions (Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2839), arts. 1(1), 3, Sch. para. 1 (with art. 6)
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