{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977/schedule-24/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977/schedule-24/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/42",
  "legislation_title": "Rent Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977",
  "path": "schedule/24/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a rent was deemed (by virtue of section 5 of the Rent Act 1974) to have been registered under Part IV of the Rent Act 1968 with effect from 14th August 1974, it shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be registered under Part IV of this Act with effect from that date.\n(2) Section 67(3) of this Act shall not apply to an application for the registration under Part IV of this Act of a rent different from that which is deemed to be registered as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) A statutory furnished tenancy which arose on 15th August 1974, by virtue of section 5(4) of the Rent Act 1974, shall be treated as a statutory furnished tenancy for the purposes of this Act and as having arisen on that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 24 para. 8(3) repealed by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61, 75:1), s. 140(2), Sch. 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1974 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1968 c. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1974 c. 51."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/42/schedule/24/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}