Section 34 Rent agreements.
In this Part of this Act “a rent agreement with a tenant having security of tenure” means—
an agreement increasing the rent payable under a protected tenancy which is a regulated tenancy, or
the grant to the tenant under a regulated tenancy, or to any person who might succeed him as a statutory tenant, of another regulated tenancy of the dwelling-house at a rent exceeding the rent under the previous tenancy:
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If a rent agreement with a tenant having security of tenure takes effect on or after 1st January 1973, and at a time when no rent is registered for the dwelling-house under Part V of this Act, the requirements of subsection (3) below shall be observed as respects the agreement.
The said requirements are that—
the agreement is in writing signed by the landlord and the tenant,
the agreement contains a statement, in characters not less conspicuous than those used in any other part of the agreement, that the tenant’s security of tenure under this Act will not be affected if he refuses to enter into the agreement, and that entry into the agreement will not deprive the tenant or the landlord of the right to apply at any time to the rent officer for the registration of a fair rent under Part V of this Act, or words to that effect,
the agreement contains a statement that, if a rent is registered under Part V of this Act in respect of the dwelling-house, any increase in the rent may be limited under section 33 above, and
the statements mentioned in paragraphs (b) and (c) above are set out at the head of the agreement.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Proviso to section 34(1) repealed by Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43, SIF 61), s. 72(3), Sch. 10