Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1923

Liability for rates on unoccupied houses.

16.—Where a dwelling-house to which this Act applies is empty or unoccupied the landlord of such dwelling-house shall be deemed to be the person in rateable occupation of the dwelling-house for the purposes of any enactment authorising the making, levying or recovering of any rate on or from an occupier thereof.