SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17 Minor and Consequential Amendments

Part I General Amendments

The Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951

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1

In section 18 of that Act (protection of tenure, in connection with employment, under a licence or rent-free letting), in subsection (1), as it applies otherwise than to Scotland,—

a

for the words “Part VII of the Rent Act 1977” there shall be substituted “ “Chapter I of Part I of the Housing Act 1988 ”; and

b

for the words “subject to a statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Rent Act 1977” there shall be substituted “ “let on a statutory periodic tenancy which is an assured tenancy ”.

2

In that subsection, as it applies to Scotland,—

a

for the words “the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971” there shall be substituted the words “ “sections 12 to 31 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 ”, and

b

for the words “subject to a statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971” there shall be substituted the words “ “let on a statutory assured tenancy ”.

3

Subsection (2) of that section shall be omitted.

4

In subsection (3) of that section, as it applies otherwise than to Scotland, at the end of paragraph (c) there shall be added

or

d

is a dwelling-house which is let on or subject to an assured agricultural occupancy within the meaning of Part I of the Housing Act 1988 which is not an assured tenancy.