Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976
Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 (1976 c. 80)
- Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 (1976 c. 80)
- Part I Preliminary
- 1 Interpretation and commencement.
- Protected occupancies
- 2 Protected occupiers in their own right.
- 3 Protected occupiers by succession.
- Statutory tenancies
- 4 Statutory tenants and tenancies.
- 5 No statutory tenancy where landlord’s interest belongs to Crown or to local authority, etc.
- Part II Security of Tenure
- Protected occupancies and statutory tenancies
- 6 Grounds for possession.
- 7 Discretion of court in giving possession.
- 8 Restriction on levy of distress for rent.
- 9 Effect of determination of superior tenancy, etc.
- Statutory tenancies
- 10 Terms and conditions.
- 11 Agreed rents.
- 12 Provisional rents.
- 13 Application for registration of rent.
- 14 Registered rents.
- 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 16 Notices of increase.
- General provisions
- 17 Adjustment for differences in lengths of rental periods.
- 18 Regulations.
- 19 Interpretation of Part II.
- Part III Protected Occupancies and Statutory Tenancies: Supplemental
- Recovery of rent
- 20 Avoidance of requirements for advance payment of rent.
- 21 Recovery from landlord of sums paid in excess of recoverable rent.
- 22 Rectification of rent books in light of determination of recoverable rent.
- Miscellaneous
- 23 Tenant sharing accommodation with persons other than landlord.
- 24 Certain sub-lettings not to exclude any part of sub-lessor’s premises from protection.
- 25 Service of notices on landlord’s agents.
- 26 Jurisdiction and procedure.
- Part IV Rehousing
- 27 Applications to housing authority concerned.
- 28 Duty of housing authority concerned.
- 29 Agricultural dwelling-house advisory committees.
- Part V Power to obtain information
- 30 Information about housing accommodation.
- 31 Kinds of information obtainable.
- Part VI Miscellaneous and Supplemental
- 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 33 Suspension of condition attached to planning permission.
- 34 Interpretation.
- 35 Isles of Scilly.
- 36 Application to Crown property.
- 37 Offences by bodies corporate.
- 38 Prosecution of offences.
- 39 Expenses.
- 40 Short title, etc.
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Index of General Definitions
- SCHEDULE 2 Meaning of “Relevant Licence” and “Relevant Tenancy”
- Relevant licence
- Relevant tenancy
- Supplemental
- SCHEDULE 3 Protected Occupiers in their own right
- Part I Definitions
- Qualifying worker
- Incapable of whole-time work in agriculture, or work in agriculture as a permit worker, in consequence of a qualifying injury or disease
- Dwelling-house in qualifying ownership
- Supplemental
- Part II Temporary Provisions as Respects Certain Forestry Workers
- Part III Supplemental
- SCHEDULE 4 Grounds for Possession of Dwelling-House Subject to Protected Occupancy or Statutory Tenancy
- Part I Cases where Court has a Discretion
- Case I
- Alternative accommodation not provided or arranged by housing authority
- Case II
- Alternative accommodation provided or arranged by housing authority
- Case III
- Case IV
- Case V
- Case VI
- Case VII
- Case VIII
- Case IX
- Case X
- Part II Cases in which court must order possession
- Case XI
- Case XII
- Case XIII
- SCHEDULE 5 Terms of the Statutory Tenancy
- Preliminary
- Terms derived from the original licence or tenancy
- Tenancy derived from licence
- Covenant for quiet enjoyment, etc.
- Non-contractual arrangements
- Landlord’s obligation to repair.
- Tenant’s obligations
- Access by landlord
- Access by tenant
- Notice to quit served on landlord
- Rates, water rates, etc.
- Variation of statutory tenancy
- SCHEDULE 6 . . .
- SCHEDULE 7 . . .
- SCHEDULE 8 Consequential and Minor Amendments
- Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951 (c. 65)
- Matrimonial Homes Act 1967 (c. 75)
- Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (c. 88)
- SCHEDULE 9 Transitional
- Licence or tenancy granted before operative date: resident landlord on and after that date
- Protected occupancy arising on or after operative date
- Statutory tenancy arising on operative date
- Statutory tenancy: order for possession before operative date
- Dwelling subject to Part VI contract: pending notice to quit
- Section 10A tenancy: order for possession before operative date
- Forestry workers
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