Rent Acts (Maximum Fair Rent) Order 1999
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1999/6 |
| Year | 1999 |
1999 No. 6
LANDLORD AND TENANT, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Rent Acts (Maximum Fair Rent) Order 1999
Made 11th January 1999
Laid before Parliament 11th January 1999
Coming into force 1st February 1999
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 31 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 19851, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Rent Acts (Maximum Fair Rent) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st February 1999.
(2) In this Order “the 1977 Act” means the Rent Act 19772.
Maximum fair rent
2.—(1) Where this article applies, the amount to be registered as the rent of the dwelling-house under Part IV shall not, subject to paragraph (5), exceed the maximum fair rent calculated in accordance with the formula set out in paragraph (2).
(2) The formula is–
where–
MFR is the maximum fair rent;
LR is the amount of the existing registered rent for the dwelling-house;
x is the index published in the month immediately preceding the month in which the determination of a fair rent is made under Part IV;
y is the published index for the month in which the rent was last registered under Part IV before the date of the application for registration of a new rent; and
P is 0.075 for the first application for rent registration of the dwelling-house after this Order comes into force and 0.05 for every subsequent application.
(3) Where the maximum fair rent calculated in accordance with paragraph (2) is not an integral multiple of 50 pence the maximum fair rent shall be that amount rounded up to the nearest integral multiple of 50 pence.
(4) If
is less than zero the maximum fair rent shall be the existing registered rent.
(5) In applying this article no account shall be taken of any variable sum to be included in the registered rent in accordance with section 71(4) of the 1977 Act.
(6) Subject to paragraph (7), this article applies where an application for the registration of a new rent in respect of a dwelling-house is made after this Order comes into force and, on the date of that application, there is an existing registered rent under Part IV in respect of that dwelling-house.
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