SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4 Statutory Tenants: Succession

Part I Amendments of Schedule 1 to Rent 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—

“(2)

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.”