Rent Acts

Rent Act 1977, Cases in Schedule 15 — Tenant’s appeal against possession order and award on counterclaim for damages — Appellant was the tenant of a dwelling-house owned by the…

Rent Act 1977, Schedule 1, para 3 — Statutory tenancy by succession — Meaning of ‘residing with’ in contrast with ‘living at’ — Position where period of physical separation during…

Rent Act 1977, section 12 and Schedule 2–‘Resident landlord’ provisions by which certain tenancies are excluded from full protection and have the status of restricted contracts–Position following death of resident…

Rent Act 1977, Schedule 15, Case 16 — Cottage required for agricultural worker — No issue as to any of the conditions of Case 16 except 16(b) — Whether ‘not…

Landlord and tenant — Dwelling-house subject to Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 — Protected occupancy — Statutory tenancy under 1976 Act — Whether former agricultural worker who commenced a small builder’s…

Fair rent registered for flat on an unfurnished basis–Premises subsequently let, before the Rent Act 1974 came66 into operation, on a furnished basis and at a rent higher than the…

Furnished tenancies–Whether landlord ‘occupied as his residence another part of the building’–Landlord’s ‘suite’ structurally separate, built on site of former garage–County court judge entitled to find that landlord’s accommodation did…

Rent Act 1977, section 2(1)(a) — Tenant occupying two adjoining houses, nos 21 and 23, under separate tenancies — He used 21 for baths, cooking and eating and normal occupation…

Fair rent–Notice of increase–Notice need not specify date which coincides with day on which rent due to be paid–Landlords entitled to apportioned increase in respect of a quarter during which…

Rent Act 1977 — Registration of fair rents — Omissions and inaccuracies in completion of form of application to rent officer — Absence of name of joint tenant, failure to…