Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act, 1971

Amendment of section 10 of Rent Restrictions (Amendment) Act, 1967.

11.—(1) Section 10 of the Rent Restrictions (Amendment) Act, 1967 (which imposes a restriction on the assignment of controlled dwellings) shall be deemed never to have applied to a house which is occupied for the purposes of his own residence by a person who holds it under a lease the term of which is more than twenty-one years.

(2) Section 10 (1) of that Act is accordingly amended, with effect from the passing of that Act, by the insertion after “profession” of “or a house which is occupied for the purposes of his own residence by a person who holds it under a lease the term of which is more than twenty-one years”.