Subject to this Part of this Act—
at any time after the death of a person who, immediately before that person's death, was either a protected tenant of the dwelling-house or a statutory tenant of it by virtue of paragraph (a) above.
In this Act a dwelling-house is referred to as subject to a statutory tenancy when there is a statutory tenant of it.
In subsection (1)(a) above and in Part I of Schedule 1, the phrase "if and so long as he occupies the dwelling-house as his residence" shall be construed as it was immediately before the commencement of this Act (that is to say, in accordance with section 3(2) of the Rent Act 1968).
A person who becomes a statutory tenant of a dwelling-house as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) above is, in this Act, referred to as a statutory tenant by virtue of his previous protected tenancy.
A person who becomes a statutory tenant as mentioned in subsection 1(b) above is, in this Act, referred to as a statutory tenant by succession.