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Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART I Further Provisions as to Clearance and Redevelopment, Reconditioning of unfit Houses, and other Amendments of Housing Acts

    1. Additional powers in respect of clearance areas and other houses liable to demolition

      1. 1.Proposals for exercise of functions of local authorities as to clearance areas, etc.

      2. 2.Power to retain for temporary accommodation certain houses in clearance areas

      3. 3.Power to purchase for temporary accommodation in lieu of making demolition orders

      4. 4.Postponement of demolition under clearance order in the case of houses let to local authority

      5. 5.Power to permit reconstruction of condemned house

      6. 6.Licences for temporary occupation of houses subject to existing demolition or clearance orders

    2. Exchequer contributions, etc.

      1. 7.Exchequer contributions towards expenses of local authorities in buying houses for temporary occupation

      2. 8.Local authorities' contributions

    3. Standard of fitness for human habitation, and provisions connected therewith

      1. 9.Standard of fitness for human habitation

      2. 10.Recovery by lessees of proportion of expenses incurred in rendering houses fit for human habitation

      3. 11.Houses let in lodgings : securing fitness for occupation by number of families accommodated

      4. 12.Houses let in lodgings : prevention of overcrowding

      5. 13.Powers of local authorities for enforcement of notices under s. 9 of principal Act

    4. Miscellaneous amendments of Housing Acts

      1. 14.Amendments as to clearance orders and compulsory purchase orders under principal Act

      2. 15.Provisions relating to Housing Revenue Accounts

      3. 16.Amendments of Housing Act, 1949

      4. 17.Powers of local authorities in connection with lending money for housing purposes

      5. 18.Default powers of county councils

      6. 19.Extension of period for use of open spaces for temporary housing accommodation

    5. Supplemental

      1. 20.Management of houses retained by local authorities for temporary occupation

      2. 21.Application of Part I to London

      3. 22.Interpretation and construction of Part I

  3. PART II Repairs Increase in respect of Controlled Dwelling-houses and other Amendments of the Rent Acts, etc.

    1. Repairs Increase

      1. 23.Repairs increase for dwelling-house in good repair

      2. 24.Rent not to be increased above twice gross value

      3. 25.Notice and declarations preliminary to recovery of repairs increase

      4. 26.Determination whether conditions fulfilled to justify increase of rent

      5. 27.Application of last foregoing section to certain increases under Rent Acts

      6. 28.Passing on of repairs increase to sub-tenant

      7. 29.Repairs increase not to be payable twice over

      8. 30.Responsibility of landlord for repairs

      9. 31.Supplementary provisions as to repair

      10. 32.Apportionments by county court to be conclusive

    2. Other amendments of Rent Acts

      1. 33.Exclusion from Rent Acts of lettings by local authorities, development corporations, and housing associations and trusts

      2. 34.Provisions taking effect on cesser of exemption under foregoing section

      3. 35.Exclusion from Rent Acts of houses converted or erected after commencement of Act

      4. 36.Amendments of s. 1 of Act of 1949

      5. 37.Application of Rent Acts to dwellings provided or improved with assistance under Part II of Housing Act, 1949

      6. 38.Exemption from s. 2 (2) of Act of 1949 for long leases

      7. 39.Payments for outgoings, improvements or goodwill on grant or assignment of controlled tenancies

      8. 40.Increase for rise in cost of services provided under pre-1939 lettings

      9. 41.Protection of sub-tenants of parts of premises

      10. 42.Amendment of meaning of expression " tenant" in Act of 1920

      11. 43.Possession without alternative accommodation not to be ordered on production of agricultural certificate

      12. 44.Date for permitted increases for increases in rates

      13. 45.Modification of Rent Acts and Act of 1946 as to accommodation registered under Defence Regulation 68 CB

      14. 46.Service of notices on prospective tenants

      15. 47.General provisions as to service of notices

      16. 48.Procedure of county court and tribunal

      17. 49.Interpretation of Part II

  4. PART III Miscellaneous and General Provisions

    1. 50.Exclusion of statutory tenants from receipt of certain notices

    2. 51.Application of Statutory Instruments Act

    3. 52.Interpretation

    4. 53.Financial provisions

    5. 54.Short title, commencement, extent and repeals

  5. SCHEDULES

    1. FIRST SCHEDULE

      Modifications of Procedure for Obtaining Clearance Orders and certain Compulsory Purchase Orders

      1. 1.(1) A notice relating to— (a) a compulsory purchase of...

      2. 2.(1) Where the Minister would apart from this paragraph be...

      3. 3.The shortest permissible notice required to be given under section...

    2. SECOND SCHEDULE

      Proof of Past Repairs by Landlord

      1. 1.Subject to the provisions of the next following paragraph, the...

      2. 2.Where the relevant date falls within four months of the...

      3. 3.Where— (a) under the terms of the tenancy, if the...

      4. 4.(1) Within twenty-eight days after the relevant date the tenant...

      5. 5.Subject to the provisions of the last foregoing paragraph, the...

      6. 6.If in such a declaration any person makes a statement...

      7. 7.(1) For the purposes of this Schedule work which enured...

      8. 8.For the purposes of this Schedule work shall be disregarded—...

    3. THIRD SCHEDULE

      Gross Values and Statutory Repairs Deductions

      1. PART I Dwelling-houses in County of London

      2. PART II Dwelling-houses outside County of London

    4. FOURTH SCHEDULE

      Modifications of Rent Acts in Application to Tenancies Previously Exempted under S. 3 (2) (c) of Act of 1939

      1. 1.In the provisions specified in the following Table there shall...

      2. 2.In the Act of 1920 the proviso to section one...

      3. 3.In subsection (4) of section four of the Act of...

      4. 4.In section six of the Act of 1933 for the...

    5. FIFTH SCHEDULE

      Repeals

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