Version Superseded: 28/02/1997
Point in time view as at 02/01/1992. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Housing Act 1988, Section 24 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 06 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)A tenancy or licence of a dwelling-house is for the purposes of this Part of this Act an “assured agricultural occupancy” if—
(a)it is of a description specified in subsection (2) below; and
(b)by virtue of any provision of Schedule 3 to this Act the agricultural worker condition is for the time being fulfilled with respect to the dwelling-house subject to the tenancy or licence.
(2)The following are the tenancies and licences referred to in subsection (1)(a) above—
(a)an assured tenancy which is not an assured shorthold tenancy;
(b)a tenancy which does not fall within paragraph (a) above by reason only of paragraph 3 [F1, 3A, 3B] or paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to this Act ([F2or more than one of those paragraphs]); and
(c)a licence under which a person has the exclusive occupation of a dwelling-house as a separate dwelling and which, if it conferred a sufficient interest in land to be a tenancy, would be a tenancy falling within paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) above.
(3)For the purposes of Chapter I above and the following provisions of this Chapter, every assured agricultural occupancy which is not an assured tenancy shall be treated as if it were such a tenancy and any reference to a tenant, a landlord or any other expression appropriate to a tenancy shall be construed accordingly; but the provisions of Chapter I above shall have effect in relation to every assured agricultural occupancy subject to the provisions of this Chapter.
(4)Section 14 above shall apply in relation to an assured agricultural occupancy as if in subsection (1) of that section the reference to an assured tenancy were a reference to an assured agricultural occupancy.
Textual Amendments
F1Words inserted by S.I. 1990/434, reg. 2, Sch. para. 28
F2Words substituted by S.I. 1990/434, reg. 2, Sch. para. 28
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