{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-regulation-and-furnished-lettings-transitional-provisions-order-1974/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-regulation-and-furnished-lettings-transitional-provisions-order-1974/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/472",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Regulation and Furnished Lettings (Transitional Provisions) Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-regulation-and-furnished-lettings-transitional-provisions-order-1974",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Proceedings",
  "text": "Any action or proceeding, or any cause of action or proceeding, pending or existing on 1st April 1974, by or against—\n(a) the rent officer for an existing registration area, or\n(b) a committee for an existing panel area, or\n(c) the rent tribunal for an existing district,\nshall not be prejudicially affected by any such area or such district ceasing to exist, and may be continued, prosecuted or enforced—\n(i) in a case falling within paragraph (a) above, by or against the rent officer for the new registration area in which is, or is to be, situated the dwelling-house, or the proposed dwelling-house (intended to be provided as aforesaid), to which that action or proceeding, or that cause of action or proceeding, relates,\n(ii) in a case falling within paragraph (b) above, by or against a committee for the new panel area in which is, or is to be, situated the dwelling-house, or the proposed dwelling-house (intended to be provided as aforesaid), to which that action or proceeding, or that cause of action or proceeding, relates, and\n(iii) in a case falling within paragraph (c) above, by or against the rent tribunal for the new district in which is situated the dwelling to which that action or proceeding, or that cause of action or proceeding, relates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/472/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:45:43.434022+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."
}