Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954

50Exclusion of statutory tenants from receipt of certain notices

(1)For the purposes of head (b) of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 3 of the First Schedule to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act, 1946 (which provides for the service of notice of a compulsory purchase order on every owner, lessee or occupier of the land except tenants for a month or less) and of any corresponding enactment regulating the service of notices in connection with the compulsory purchase of land (including any such enactment contained in a local Act), an occupier being a statutory tenant within the meaning of Part II of this Act shall be deemed to be a tenant for a period less than a month.

(2)The foregoing subsection shall apply in relation to the following enactments, that is to say:—

(a)paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section thirty-five of the Housing Act, 1936 (which relates to redevelopment plans);

(b)sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 3 of the Third Schedule to that Act (which relates to clearance orders);

(c)sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 3 of the First Schedule to the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949 (which relates to orders designating national parks and other orders under that Act);

(d)any local enactment regulating the service of notices in respect of the proposed exercise of any powers in relation to land,

as it applies in relation to the enactments therein referred to.