Housing Act 1974
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1974 c. 44 |
| Year | 1974 |
(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(2) If at any time, by virtue of F6section 5(4) of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984, a tenancy ceases to be one to which . . . , or sections 60 to 66 of the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1972 apply, and becomes a protected tenancy for the purposes of . . . , or of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971, that tenancy shall be a regulated tenancy and the housing association which is the landlord under that tenancy shall give notice in writing to the tenant, . . . , informing him that his tenancy is no longer excluded from protection under . . . or the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971.(3) If, without reasonable excuse, a housing association fails to give notice to a tenant under subsection (2) above within the period of 21 days beginning on the day on which his tenancy becomes a protected tenancy, the association shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F9level 3 on the standard scale.(4) Where an offence under subsection (3) above committed by a body corporate is proved too have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager or secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(6) The provisions of Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect for supplementing this section, and Part I of that Schedule shall come into force on the passing of this Act.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(2) In any case where, by virtue only of the amendments of section 1 of the (3) After subsection (4) of section 1 of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 there shall be inserted—
- “(4A) At any time the tenant may take the action provided in Schedule 8 to the Housing Act 1974 for his rateable value to be adjusted and in all such cases the agreed rateable value or that determined by the Court or District Valuer shall be the rateable value for the purposes of that Act.
- “(1A) Notwithstanding, the foregoing subsection, the price payable for a house and premises, the rateable value of which is above £1,000 in Greater London and £500 elsewhere, on a conveyance under section 8 above, shall be the amount which at the relevant time the house and premises, if sold in the open market by a willing seller, might be expected to realise on the following assumptions :—
- (a) on the assumption that the vendor was selling for an estate in fee simple, subject to the tenancy, but on the assumption that this Part of this Act conferred no right to acquire the freehold ;
- (b) on the assumption that at the end of the tenancy the...
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