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The Assured Tenancies (Rent Book) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993

S.I. 1993/649 · Made 11 March 1993

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LANDLORD AND TENANT, SCOTLAND

Made 11th March 1993

Laid before Parliament 11th March 1993

Coming into force 1st April 1993

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 30(5), 53(3) and 55(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988f1, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 43; section 55(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of Assured Tenancies (Rent Book) (Scotland) Regulations 1988
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Assured Tenancies (Rent Book) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

2Amendment of Assured Tenancies (Rent Book) (Scotland) Regulations 1988

The form of notice in the Schedule to the Assured Tenancies (Rent Book) (Scotland) Regulations 1988f1 shall be amended as follows:—

(a)

at the end of paragraph 3 there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(3)

In circumstances in which the landlord is responsible for payment of the council tax the figure for rent payable contained in sub-paragraphs (1)(a) and (2)(b) above includes the tenant’s contribution to the council tax.”;

(b)

at the end of paragraph 5 there shall be added the following sub-paragraph:—

“(d)

if yours is a statutory or contractual assured tenancy, your landlord may serve a notice, AT9, proposing a new rent to take account of the council tax during the period commencing on 1st April 1993 and ending on 31st March 1994. If a notice is served on you there is a right to apply to a rent assessment committee for a determination of a market rent although you must do so before the day on which the new rent proposed by the landlord would take effect.”; and

(c)

in paragraph 6(1) after “rent” there shall be inserted the following:—

  • “(other than in the circumstances specified in paragraph 5(d) above)”.

Signature

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

11th March 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Assured Tenancies (Rent Book) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 and are consequential on the introduction of the council tax under the Local Government Finance Act 1992. They amend the form of notice in a rent book prescribed by the 1988 Regulations to take account of the situation where rent includes the council tax.