22 Reference of excessive rents to [appropriate tribunal]
Housing Act 1988 (1988 c 50) | Legislation

22  Reference of excessive rents to [appropriate tribunal]

(1)     Subject to section 23 and subsection (2) below, the tenant under an assured shorthold tenancy . . . may make an application in the prescribed form to [the appropriate tribunal] for a determination of the rent which, in [the appropriate tribunal's] opinion, the landlord might reasonably be expected to obtain under the assured shorthold tenancy.

(2)     No application may be made under this section if—

(a)     the rent payable under the tenancy is a rent previously determined under this section; . . .

[(aa)     the tenancy is one to which section 19A above applies and more than six months have elapsed since the beginning of the tenancy or, in the case of a replacement tenancy, since the beginning of the original tenancy; or]

(b)     the tenancy is an assured shorthold tenancy

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