Section 76: Statutory tenancies by succession.

Housing Act 1980 · 1980 c.51

Part II: Private Sector Tenants

76(1)

In Schedule 1 to the 1977 Act, for paragraph 2 (under which on the death of the original tenant under a protected or statutory tenancy his widow if residing with him at his death becomes a statutory tenant by succession) there is substituted the following paragraph—

76(2)

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76(3)

In sections 3(3)(a) and 4(4)(a) of the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 (which correspond to provisions in Schedule 1 to the 1977 Act) for the words " with him at his death" there shall be substituted in each case the words " in the dwelling-house immediately befor his death".

76(4)

The amendments made by this section have effect only in relation to deaths occurring after the commencement of the subsection concerned.

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