Valid from 04/12/2006

[F124BExceptions to section 24A(1)E+W+S

(1)Section 24A(1) does not apply if—

(a)the premises are, or have at any time been, the only or principal home of an individual who is a person by whom they are let; and

(b)since entering into the letting—

(i)the individual has not, and

(ii)where he is not the sole person by whom the premises are let, no other person by whom they are let has,

used for the purpose of managing the premises the services of a person who, by profession or trade, manages let premises.

(2)Section 24A(1) does not apply if the premises are of a prescribed description.

(3)Where the conditions mentioned in section 23(2) are satisfied, section 24A(1) does not apply.

(4)For the purposes of section 23 “the relevant occupier” means, in a case falling within section 24A(1), a controller of the let premises, or a near relative of his; and “near relative” has here the same meaning as in section 23.]