{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977/section-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977/section-62.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/42",
  "legislation_title": "Rent Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977",
  "path": "section/62",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Registration areas.",
  "text": "(1) Except so far as different provision is made by an order under section 17 of the Local Government Act 1992, or Part 1 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (orders constituting new local government areas etc) the registration areas for the purpose of this Part of this Act are—\n(a) counties and county boroughs;\n(b) London boroughs; and\n(c) the City of London.\n(2) For the purposes of this Part of this Act—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the City of London shall be deemed to include the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, and\n(b) the Isles of Scilly shall be a registration area and the Council of the Isles of Scilly shall be the local authority for that registration area.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(1) inserted (13.10.1995) by S.I. 1995/2451, reg. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(1) inserted (1.11.2007 for E.) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), s. 245(5), Sch. 1 para. 13; S.I. 2007/3136, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 16, Sch. 8 para. 13(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(a) inserted (1.10.1995) by 1994 c. 19, s. 22(2), Sch. 8 para. 3(2) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1995/2490, art. 4(1), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 16, Sch. 8 para. 13(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/42/section/62",
    "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."
}