Paragraph 14

United Kingdom

Section 50 of this Act does not apply to—

(a)

a dwelling-house in England and Wales which is unfit for human habitation within the meaning of section 604 of the M1Housing Act 1985 or does not have all the standard amenities within the meaning of section 508 of that Act;

(b)

a dwelling-house in Scotland which does not meet the tolerable standard described, for the purposes of the M2Housing (Scotland) Act 1987, by section 86 of that Act or does not have all the standard amenities described in the first column of Part I of Schedule 18 to that Act; or

(c)

a dwelling-house in Northern Ireland which is unfit for human habitation within the meaning of Article 46 of the M3Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 or does not have all the standard amenities within the meaning of Article 59 of the M4Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1983.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: 1985 c. 68.
M2: 1987 c. 26.
M3: S.I. 1981/156 (N.I. 3).
M4: S.I. 1983/1118 (N.I. 15).

Notes on Schedule 4

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 4 repealed (3.5.1994 with effect as mentioned in Sch. 26 Pt. V(17) of the repealing Act) by 1994 c. 9, s. 258, Sch. 26 Pt. V(17), note