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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977-forms-etc-regulations-1980/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1697",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Act 1977 (Forms etc.) Regulations 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977-forms-etc-regulations-1980",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations supersede the Rent (Agriculture) (Rent Registration) Regulations 1978 and the Rent Regulation (Forms etc.) Regulations 1978. They also replace paragraphs 11 and 12 of the Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Regulations 1946 (S.R. & O. 1946/781). They prescribe the forms to be used for the purposes of various provisions of the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 and the Rent Act 1977. A list of the prescribed forms appears at the beginning of Schedule 1.\nThe forms incorporate drafting amendments but the main changes have been made so as to reflect the amendments made by the Housing Act 1980 (1980 c. 51) to the 1976 and 1977 Acts. Briefly, these changes involve—\n(1) the abolition of controlled tenancies;\n(2) changes in the date from which decisions of rent officers and rent assessment committees are effective;\n(3) a reduction in the period of phasing of rent increases and of the period before which further applications can be made for the registration of rents;\n(4) provisions to enable owners of non-tenanted properties to apply for the cancellation of rents registered in respect of them;\n(5) a requirement whereby applications for rents including the cost of services must be accompanied by details of the cost of those services;\n(6) modifications to the procedures of rent officers in considering applications for the registration of rents;\n(7) the transfer of the functions of rent tribunals to rent assessment committees.\nAs a result of these amendments, certain forms previously prescribed are no longer required and are not repeated. However, four new forms have been prescribed—an application for cancellation of a registered rent where there is no regulated tenancy (form No. 11), notices to be given by rent officers to landlords and tenants on the receipt of applications for the registration of fair rents (forms Nos. 12 and 13) and the application for the cancellation of a rent registered by a rent tribunal (form No. 15).\nThe Regulations prescribe the particulars with regard to regulated tenancies which are to be contained in the register kept by rent officers, and increase to 50p the fee which is payable for a certified copy of an entry in a register. They also prescribe the particulars relating to restricted contracts about which lessors can be required to supply information to rent tribunals, and the particulars with regard to such contracts which are to be contained in the register kept by the president of rent assessment panels. The fee for a certified copy of an entry in that register is similarly increased to 50p.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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