SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 4 Statutory Tenants: Succession
Part I Amendments of Schedule 1 to M1Rent Act 1977
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In paragraph 3—
a
after the words
“residing with him” there shall be inserted “
“in the dwelling-house
”
;
b
for the words
“period of 6 months” there shall be substituted “
“period of 2 years
”
;
c
for the words from
“the statutory tenant” onwards there shall be substituted “
“entitled to an assured tenancy of the dwelling-house by succession
”
; and
d
at the end there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—
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If the original tenant died within the period of 18 months beginning on the operative date, then, for the purposes of this paragraph, a person who was residing in the dwelling-house with the original tenant at the time of his death and for the period which began 6 months before the operative date and ended at the time of his death shall be taken to have been residing with the original tenant for the period of 2 years immediately before his death.
1977 c. 42.