Section 13 Application for registration of rent.

England and Wales

(1)

There shall be a part of the register under Part IV of F1the M1Rent Act 1977 in which rents may be registered for dwelling-houses which are subject to statutory tenancies (as defined in this Act).

(2)

In relation to that part of the register the following provisions of the M2Rent Act 1977, that is—

F2(a)

sections 67 F367A, 70 and 70A,

(b)

section 71, except subsection (3), and

(c)

Part I of Schedule 11,

shall have effect as if for any reference in those provisions to a regulated tenancy there were substituted a reference to a statutory tenancy (as defined in this Act).

(3)

The preceding provisions of this section shall not be taken as applying F4sections . . . F5, 71(3), 72 or 73 of the M3Rent Act 1977 . . . F6.

F7(4)

The registration of a rent in the said part of the register takes effect—

(a)

if the rent is determined by the rent officer, from the date when it is registered, and

(b)

if the rent is determined by a rent assessment committee, from the date when the committee make their decision.

(5)

If the rent for the time being registered in the said part of the register is confirmed, the confirmation takes effect—

(a)

if it is made by the rent officer, from the date when it is noted in the register, and

(b)

if it is made by a rent assessment committee, from the date when the committee make their decision.

(6)

If (by virtue of section 67(4) of the M4Rent Act 1977, as applied by subsection (2) above) an application for registration of a rent is made before the expiry of the period mentioned in section 67(3) and the resulting registration of a rent for the dwelling-house, or confirmation of the rent for the time being registered, would, but for this subsection, take effect before the expiry of that period it shall take effect on the expiry of that period.

(6A)

The date from which the registration or confirmation of a rent takes effect shall be entered in the said part of the register.

(6B)

As from the date on which the registration of a rent takes effect any previous registration of a rent for the dwelling-house ceases to have effect.

(7)

A rent registered in any part of the register for a dwelling-house which becomes, or ceases to be, one subject to a statutory tenancy shall be as effective as if it were registered in any other part of the register; but F8section 67(3) of the M5Rent Act 1977 (no application for registration of a different rent to be made within F9two years of the last registration) shall not apply to an application for the registration, as respects a dwelling-house which is subject to a statutory tenancy, of a rent different from one which is registered in a part of the register other than the part mentioned in subsection (1) above.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words substituted by Rent Act 1977 (c. 42), Sch. 23 para. 75(a)
F2: S. 13(2)(a)-(c) substituted by Rent Act 1977 (c. 42), Sch. 23 para. 75(b)
F3: Words in s. 13(2)(a) substituted (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/651, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 para. 1.
F4: Words substituted by Rent Act 1977 (c. 42), Sch. 23 para. 75(c)
F5: Figures repealed by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 75:1), s. 140, Sch. 18
F6: Words repealed by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 75:1), s. 140, Sch. 18
F7: S. 13(4)—(6)(6A)(6B) substituted with saving for s. 13(4)—(6) by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51), s. 61(2)(8)
F8: Words substituted by Rent Act 1977 (c. 42), Sch. 23 para. 75(e)
F9: Words substituted by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51), Sch. 25 para. 33(a)

Marginal citations

M1: 1977 c. 42.
M2: 1977 c. 42.
M3: 1977 c. 42.
M4: 1977 c. 42.
M5: 1977 c. 42.