Paragraph 47

Section 116 of the 1977 Act (provision where tenant refuses to allow landlord to carry out works) is amended as follows.

For subsection (1) there is substituted the following subsection—

“(1)

This section applies where a dwelling-house is subject to a statutory tenancy and the landlord wishes to carry out works which cannot be carried out without the consent of the tenant.”

For subsection (3) there is substituted the following subsection—

“(3)

The condition is—

(a)

that the works were specified in an application for an improvement, or intermediate, grant under Part VII of the Housing Act 1974 and the application has been approved, or

(b)

that the works are specified in a certificate issued by a local authority and stating that if an application were to be made by the landlord for such a grant in respect of the works, the application would be likely to be approved.”

In subsection (5) the words “ sections 4(4) or 10 of the Housing Act 1969 or” are hereby repealed.