Section 105: Low rent test: nil rateable values.

Housing Act 1996 · 1996 c. 52View on legislation.gov.uk

Part III: Landlord and Tenant — Chapter III: Leasehold Reform

In section 4(1) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (meaning of "low rent") —

in paragraph (i) (cases where rent limit of two-thirds of rateable value on later of appropriate day and first day of term applies), for the words from "or (where" to "that date" there shall be substituted ," , or on or after 1st April 1990 in pursuance of a contract made before that date, and the property had a rateable value other than nil at the date of the commencement of the tenancy or else at any time before 1st April 1990, "
in paragraph (ii) (other cases), for the words from "is entered" to "1990)," there shall be substituted , and" does not fall within paragraph (i) above, "
in paragraph (a) (definition of "appropriate day" by reference to section 25(3) of the Rent Act 1977), there shall be inserted at the end ." if the reference in paragraph (a) of that provision to a rateable value were to a rateable value other than nil "

In section 4A of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (alternative rent limits for the purposes of section 1A(2) of that Act)—

in subsection (1)(b) (cases where rent limit of two-thirds of rateable value on the relevant date applies), for sub-paragraph (ii) there shall be substituted—iithe property had a rateable value other than nil at the date of commencement of the tenancy or else at any time before 1st April 1990,, and
in subsection (2), for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted—b"the relevant date" means the date of the commencement of the tenancy or, if the property did not have a rateable value, or had a rateable value of nil, on that date, the date on which it first had a rateable value other than nil;.

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