34 New protected tenancies and agricultural occupancies restricted to special cases

Chapter V
Phasing out of Rent Acts and other Transitional Provisions

34  New protected tenancies and agricultural occupancies restricted to special cases

(1)     A tenancy which is entered into on or after the commencement of this Act cannot be a protected tenancy, unless—

(a)     it is entered into in pursuance of a contract made before the commencement of this Act; or

(b)     it is granted to a person (alone or jointly with others) who, immediately before the tenancy was granted, was a protected or statutory tenant and is so granted by the person who at that time was the landlord (or one of the joint landlords) under the protected or statutory tenancy; or

(c)     it is granted to a person (alone or jointly with others) in the following circumstances—

(i)     prior to the grant of the tenancy, an order for possession of a dwelling-house was made against him (alone or jointly with others) on the court being satisfied as mentioned in section 98(1)(a) of, or Case 1 in Schedule 16 to, the Rent Act 1977 or Case 1 in Schedule 4 to the

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