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Amendments made: No. 78, in page 12, line 38, leave out from applies 'to' end of line 4 on page 13 and insert
'where a rent is not registered for a dwelling-house which is subject to a statutory tenancy.
(2) If the rent payable for any period of the statutory tenancy would be less than the rent based on rateable value, it may be increased up to the amount of that rent by a notice of increase served by the landlord on the tenant'.
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No. 79, in page 13, line 23, at end insert
'(5A) where a rent is registered for the dwelling-house at any time after the notice is served, as from the date from which the registration takes effect the rent payable in accordance with the notice shall not exceed the weekly or other periodical equivalent of the amount of the rent so registered.
(5B) If the rent payable in accordance with the notice exceeds the limit imposed by subsection (5A) above, the amount of the excess shall be irrecoverable from the tenant'.
§ No. 82, in page 14, line 1, leave out from 'agreement' to end of line 7 and insert was made'.
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No. 83, in line 11, at end insert
'and until the rateable value is so ascertained references in this section to the amount of the rent based on rateable value shall be construed as references to the landlord's estimate of that amount'.—[Mr. Armstrong.]