# Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976, Paragraph 3


A person who is occupying a dwelling-house as his residence on the operative date shall become the statutory tenant of the dwelling-house if, on the assumption that this Act and the provisions of the Rent Act 1968 which are applied by Schedule 2 to this Act, including (where relevant) any amendments to those provisions, were in force at all material times before that date, he would be a statutory tenant of the dwelling-house on that date, and this Act shall thereafter apply to him, and by reference to him, on that assumption.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/80/schedule/9/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rent-agriculture-act-1976/schedule-9/paragraph-3
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