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THIRD SCHEDULES Reduction of Rents

1SWhere immediately before the commencement of the year first commencing after the passing of this Act (hereinafter referred to as “the relevant year”) any lands and heritages are let under a lease other than such a lease as is mentioned in the next following paragraph, then subject to the following provisions of this Schedule [F1and sub–paragraphs (7) to (10) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to the M1Rent (Scotland) Act 1971] the rent payable to the landlord by the tenant in respect of that year and of any subsequent year shall be reduced—

(a)where the rent is payable in respect of the period of a year, by an amount equal to the owner’s share of the rates payable in respect of the lands and heritages for the year in which this Act passed;

(b)where the rent is payable in respect of any lesser period, by an amount which bears the same proportion to the owner’s share of the rates so payable as the period in respect of which the rent is payable bears to the period of a year:

Provided that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not apply in relation to any such lease unless immediately before the commencement of the relevant year the occupiers’ rates in respect of the lands and heritages let under the lease are payable by the tenant or by a sub–tenant.

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F1Words inserted by Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 28), s. 135 (2), Sch. 18 Pt. II

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2SWhere immediately before the commencement of the relevant year any lands and heritages are let under a lease for a period of more than twenty–one years or, in the case of minerals, thirty–one years, then subject to the following provisions of this Schedule [F2and sub–paragraphs (7) to (10) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to the M2Rent (Scotland) Act 1971] the rent payable under the lease in respect of that year and of any subsequent year shall be reduced by an amount which bears the same proportion to the owner’s share of the rates payable in respect of the lands and heritages for the year in which this Act passed as the rent payable under the lease bears to the gross annual value of the lands and heritages for the last–mentioned year:

Provided that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not apply in relation to any such lease where by virtue of the terms thereof there is not available to the lessee thereunder the right of relief against the landlord conferred by section six of the M3Lands Valuation (Scotland) Act, 1854.

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F2Words inserted by Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 28), s. 135 (2), Sch. 18 Pt. II

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3(1)Where immediately before the commencement of the relevant year any lands and heritages are let under a lease in terms of which the rent payable falls, or may fall, to be varied on a date occurring after the commencement of the said year, being a lease in relation to which either of the foregoing paragraphs applies, the rent payable in respect of any period after that date shall be a sum equal to the rent which would, apart from this Act, have been then payable reduced by an amount equal to the relevant fraction of such last–mentioned rent.S

(2)In this Schedule the expression “relevant fraction” means—

(a)as applied to any amount related to lands and heritages to which subsection (1) of section twelve of the M4Rating (Scotland) Act, 1926, or section forty–five of the M5Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, applies, a fraction of which the numerator is the owner’s share of the rates payable in respect of such lands and heritages for the year in which this Act passed and the denominator is the gross annual value of those lands and heritages for that year; and

(b)as applied to any amount related to any other lands and heritages, a fraction of which the numerator is the number of pence per pound of rateable value payable by way of owner’s rates in respect of such lands and heritages for the year in which this Act passed and the denominator is two hundred and forty.

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4SWhere immediately before the commencement of the relevant year any lands and heritages are let under a lease in terms of which the tenant is under an obligation to pay to the landlord an amount in respect of owners’ rates, being a lease in relation to which paragraph 1 of this Schedule applies, then—

(a)on and after the commencement of the said year the tenant shall be relieved of such obligation; and

(b)the rent to be reduced in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Schedule in any year shall be ascertained by taking the rent payable to the landlord by the tenant in respect of that year and adding thereto the amount payable to the landlord by the tenant in respect of owner’s rates for the year in which this Act passed.

5(1)Where by virtue of any condition contained in a lease to which paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 of this Schedule applies the rent payable to the landlord by the tenant would, apart from this paragraph, fall to be reduced in consequence of the passing of this Act such condition shall not have effect.S

(2)Where the rent payable under any lease to which paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 of this Schedule applies is varied by agreement between the parties made after the commencement of the relevant year or by virtue of arbitration or a decision of any court after such commencement the foregoing provisions of this Schedule (apart from sub–paragraph (2) of paragraph 3 thereof) shall cease to apply in relation to such lease.

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9SWhere at the commencement of the relevant year the amount of the rent or, as the case may be, the maximum amount of the rent is fixed, determined or approved in respect of any dwelling–house by or in pursuance of any of the enactments specified in the next succeeding paragraph, the amount of such rent or, as the case may be, such maximum amount of the rent shall be reduced by an amount equal to the relevant fraction of such rent or maximum rent.

10SThe enactments referred to in the last foregoing paragraph are—

(a)paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section three of the M6Housing (Rural Workers) Act, 1926;

(b)section eighty of the M7Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950;

(c)subsection (3) of section one hundred and one of the M8Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950;

(d)subsection (3) of section one hundred and one of the M9Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950, as applied by subsection (8) of section three of the M10Housing (Scotland) Act, 1952;

(e)section one hundred and thirteen of the M11Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950;

(f)paragraph (c) (ii) of subsection (1) of section one hundred and fourteen of the M12Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950;

(g)section one hundred and twenty–one of the M13Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950;

(h)M14section six of Housing (Repairs and Rents) (Scotland) Act, 1954.

11SWhere the maximum rent of any dwelling–house which immediately before the commencement of the relevant year is subject to the conditions specified in subsection (1) of section one hundred and fourteen of the M15Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950, has been reduced under paragraph 9 of this Schedule, the local authority for the purposes of that Act shall send by registered post to the owner of the said dwelling–house notice in the prescribed form setting forth the effect of this Schedule on such maximum rent.

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12SWhere at any time after the commencement of the relevant year a dwelling–house becomes subject to the condition as to maximum rent specified in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section one hundred and fourteen of the M16Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950, and the maximum rent of such dwelling–house falls to be determined under that paragraph by reference to the rent which was payable under a lease which had terminated before the commencement of the said year, such maximum rent shall not be determined by reference to the rent payable under that lease but shall be determined by reference to that rent reduced by an amount equal to the relevant fraction of that rent.

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13SIt shall be the duty of any landlord who by virtue of section sixteen of this Act ceases to be liable in payment of any rate to give, not later than the commencement of the relevant year, to the occupier who becomes liable in payment of such rate, notice in the prescribed form setting forth the total amount of such rate in the year in which this Act passed, or the proportion thereof attributable to the lands and heritages occupied by the occupier, as the case may be, and such other information as appears to the Secretary of State expedient for informing the occupier of the effect of this Schedule.

14SAny dispute as to the amount of the owner’s share of the rates payable in respect of any lands and heritages shall, failing agreement between the parties, be determined by the rating authority, whose decision shall be final.

15SFor the purposes of this Schedule—

(a)the expression “lease” means a letting for a term of years or for lives or for lives and years or from year to year or for a part of a year, and includes a sub–lease; and “landlord,” “tenant” and “lessee” shall be construed accordingly;

(b)a lease shall be deemed to have been entered into on the date of the term of entry thereunder;

(c)a tenant shall include a tenant as defined in paragraph (g) of subsection (1) of section twelve of the M17Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1920 [F4or by virtue of being a statutory tenant within the meaning of the M18Rent (Scotland) Act 1971], and a tenant or lessee occupying under tacit relocation following on a lease or by virtue of the Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts, 1920 to 1939 [F4or the M19Rent (Scotland) Act 1971], after the termination of a lease shall be deemed to be occupying under that lease;

(d)a landholder or a statutory small tenant within the meaning of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts, 1886 to 1931, who is occupying a holding immediately before the commencement of the relevant year, and a crofter within the meaning of the M20Crofters (Scotland) Act, 1955, who is occupying a croft immediately before such commencement, and the statutory successor of any such landholder, statutory small tenant or crofter, shall be deemed to be occupying the holding or croft, as the case may be, under a lease for a period of not more than twenty–one years.

(e)prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by statutory instrument by the Secretary of State.

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F4Words inserted by Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 28), s. 135 (2), Sch. 18 Pt. II

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