{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977/schedule-15/part-III/crossheading-provision-for-part-ii/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977/schedule-15/part-III/crossheading-provision-for-part-ii/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/42",
  "legislation_title": "Rent Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977",
  "path": "schedule/15/part/III/crossheading/provision-for-part-ii/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any reference in Part II of this Schedule to the relevant date shall be construed as follows:—\n(a) except in a case falling within paragraph (b) or (c) below, if the protected tenancy, or, in the case of a statutory tenancy, the previous contractual tenancy, was created before 8th December 1965, the relevant date means 7th June 1966; and\n(b) except in a case falling within paragraph (c) below, if the tenancy became a regulated tenancy by virtue of section 14 of the Counter-Inflation Act 1973 and the tenancy or, in the case of a statutory tenancy, the previous contractual tenancy, was created before 22nd March 1973, the relevant date means 22nd September 1973; and\n(c) in the case of a regulated furnished tenancy, if the tenancy or, in the case of a statutory furnished tenancy, the previous contractual tenancy was created before 14th August 1974, the relevant date means 13th February 1975; and\n(d) in any other case, the relevant date means the date of the commencement of the regulated tenancy in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/42/schedule/15/part/III/crossheading/provision-for-part-ii/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:24:12.956086+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}