HC Deb 21 March 1973 vol 853 cc600-1

PROTECTED TERRITORIES

Lords Amendment: No. 6, in page 9, line 22, at end insert new Clause "B": Protected tenancies.

"B—(1) For paragraph (a) of section 1(1) of the Rent Act 1968 (protected tenancies) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—

"(a) where the appropriate day in relation to the dwelling-house fell before the date of the passing of the Counter-Inflation Act 1973,—

  1. (i) the dwelling-house on the said appropriate day had a rateable value exceeding, if it is in Greater London, £400 or, if it is elsewhere, £200, and
  2. (ii) the dwelling-house on the date of the passing of the said Act of 1973 had a rateable value exceeding, if it is in Greater London, £600, or, if it is elsewhere, £300, and
  3. (iii) the dwelling-house on 1st April 1973 has a rateable value exceeding, if it is in Greater London, £1,500 or, if it is elsewhere, £750, or

(aa) where the appropriate day in relation to the dwelling-house falls on or after the date of the passing of the said Act of 1973, but before 1st April 1973—

  1. (i) the dwelling-house on the said appropriate day had a rateable value exceeding, if it is in Greater London, £600, or, if it is elsewhere, £300, and
  2. (ii) the dwelling-house on 1st April 1973 has a rateable value exceeding, if it is in Greater London, £1,500, or, if it is elsewhere, £750, or

(aaa) where the appropriate day in relation to the dwelling-house falls on or after 1st April 1973, the dwelling-house on the said appropriate day has or had a rateable value exceeding, if it is in Greater London, £1,500 or, if it is elsewhere, £750, or."

(2) In section 1(3) of the Rent Act 1968 (questions on limits of rateable value) for the words "subsection (1)(a)" there shall be substituted the words "subsection (1)".

(3) So much of section 89 of the Housing Finance Act 1972 as relates to the said section 1 of the Rent Act 1968 (being provisions superseded by subsection (1) above) shall cease to have effect.

(4) Schedule (Rent Restriction) to this Act shall have effect for supplementing this section, and in that Schedule this section is referred to as the "principal section".

(5) References to this Act in sections 13 to 19 of this Act, and in Schedules 1 to 4 to this Act, shall not include references to this section."

The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Paul Channon)

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this amendment the House is to take Lords Amendment No. 12, in Clause 21, page 18, line 28, after "Acts" insert "and instruments" Lords Amendment No. 18, after Schedule 4, in page 32, line 14, at end insert new Schedule "A":