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Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act.
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2.—(1) Section 3 (2) (a) and section 3 (4) of the Principal Act are each hereby amended by the insertion after “sixty pounds” of “(if the dwelling is neither a house nor a separate and self-contained flat) or forty pounds (if the dwelling is a house) or thirty pounds (if the dwelling is a separate and self-contained flat)” and by the insertion after “forty pounds” of “(if the dwelling is neither a house nor a separate and self-contained flat) or thirty pounds (if the dwelling is a house) or twenty pounds (if the dwelling is a separate and self-contained flat)”.
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(2) Section 3 (2) (f) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of “, save in a case in which there is a coming into possession by the landlord on or after the 8th day of June, 1966, ” before “the rateable valuation”.
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(3) Section 3 (2) (g) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the addition at the end of the paragraph of “or which is a separate and self-contained flat (not being a flat forming part of any such buildings) of which the landlord is on the 8th day of June, 1966, in possession or thereafter comes into possession ”.
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(4) Section 3 (2) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following paragraph:
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“(i) a dwelling which is a house the rateable valuation whereof exceeds ten pounds, being a house of which, after the passing of the Rent Restrictions (Amendment) Act, 1967, a person, being a bachelor or spinster and being over the age of 21 years and under the age of 65 years, has become the tenant.”
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(5) Section 3 (7) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after “subsection (2)” of “and in paragraph (g) of that subsection ”.
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(6) The application of the Principal Act to a house shall not be excluded by reason only of section 3 (6) of that Act in a case in which, at the passing of this Act, the house 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, but if, at any time before the expiration of that term, neither he nor any other person having the lessee's interest under the lease is in occupation of the house for the purposes of his own residence, the Principal Act shall thereupon cease to apply.
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