SCHEDULE 3Consequential and related amendments

PART 1Primary legislation

Rent Act 1977

5.

In paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Rent Act 197794—

(a)

for sub-paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2)

For the purposes of this paragraph, a person who was living with the original tenant as if they were a married couple or civil partners is to be treated as the spouse or civil partner of the original tenant.”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (3), for the words from “, or if that person” to the end substitute “or civil partner”.