In section 5, there shall be added at the end the following—

In section 38, there shall be added at the end the following—

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In section 14(2), for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(a)is a dwelling-house which consists ofor comprises premises licensed for the sale of exciseable liquor on the premises; or”

In section 15, in subsection (1), for the words in paragraph (a) from “subsection” to “1946” there shall be substituted the words “section 85(1) of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971”; for the words from “(c) the conditions” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the following:—

“(c)the condition specified in subsection (1)(b) of section 93 of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 is not fulfilled,

the said section 93 shall apply in relation to the notice to quit as if that condition had been fulfilled as to the contract under which that tenancy subsists.; ”

for subsection (3) of that section there shall he substituted the following subsection:—

“(3)The subsistence of a Crown interest in premises shall not affect the operation of this section if the interest of the immediate landlord of the tenant under the tenancy in question is not a Crown interest; but nothing in this subsection shall be construed as excluding the operation of this Part of this Act in cases where there subsists a Crown interest not being the interest of the immediate landlord of the tenant under the tenancy in question.;”

In section 16, in subsection (1), for the words “the Rent Restrictions Acts”there shall be substituted the words “the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971”; for subsection (2) of that section there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

“(2)The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection are any one or more of the following, that is to say,—

(a)that the rateable value on the appropriate day (as defined for the purposes of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971) of the premises which are the rented family residence, or of a property of which at the ending of the tenancy qualifying for protection those premises form part, exceeded the limit specified in subsection (1)(a) of section 1 of that Act;

(b)that the interest of the immediate landlord of the tenant under the tenancy qualifying for protection belongs to any of the bodies or entities specified in subsection (2) of section 5 of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 other than the Housing Corporation;

(c)that the interest of the immediate landlord of the tenant under the tenancy qualifying for protection belongs to such a housing association as is referred to in subsection (4) of section 5 of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 and that one of the conditions specified in subsection (5) of that section is fulfilled;

(d)that immediately before the ending of the tenancy qualifying’ for protection those premises, were let together with agricultural land exceeding two acres in extent but were not a dwelling-house comprised in an agricultural holding and occupied by the person responsible for the control (whether as tenant or as servant or agent of the tenant) of the farming the holding;

(e)that immediately before the ending of the tenancy qualifying for protection the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (a) of section 2(1) of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 applied with respect to that tenancy or with respect to a tenancy having effect subject to that tenancy.;”and in subsections (4)(b) and (7) for references to section one of the Rent Act of 1949 there shall be substituted references to section 59 of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971; and in subsection (7) for the words from “paragraph (b)” to “section one” there shall be substituted the words “section 68(4) of that Act”.

In section 22, in subsection (1), for the words from “brought before” to “1946” there shall be substituted the words “brought under Part III of the Rent Act 1965 or under the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971, or of any proceedings consequential upon the making of a reference or application to a rent tribunal under Part VII of that Act”; and after subsection (3) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

“(3A)In relation to any proceedings before a rent officer or rent assessment committee, within the meaning of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971, subsections (1) to (3) of this section shall have effect as if the references to the court or tribunal included references to a rent officer or rent assessment committee.”

In section 24, there shall be added the following paragraph:—

“(j)for any reference to the Rent Restrictions Acts there shall be substituted a reference to the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971; and for any reference, however expressed, to a dwelling-house to which the Rent Restrictions Acts apply there shall be substituted a reference to a dwelling-house subject to a statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971.”

In section 34, for the words “protected tenancy” there shall be substituted the words “statutorily protected tenancy” and for paragraph (a) of that section there shall be substituted the words—

“(a)a protected tenancy within the meaning of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971;”.

In section 95, in subsection (3), the word “existing” shall be omitted and for the words from “section 11(2)” to the end of the first paragraph thereof there shall be substituted the words “the first tenancy of the dwelling or any part thereof created thereafter shall not, by virtue only of being created by a lease or agreement coming into operation on or after 6th July 1957, be prevented from being a controlled tenancy and the tenant shall not thereby be prevented from retaining possession as a statutory tenant on the coming to an end of such a tenancy”, and for the second paragraph of subsection (3) there shall be substituted the following:—

“Expressions used in this subsection have the same meanings as in the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971.”

In section 38, there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

“(5)Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act shall exclude the application of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 to a dwelling provided or improved by means of improvement works in respect of which an improvement grant has been made.”