23 Tenant sharing accommodation with persons other than landlord
Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 (1976 c 80) | Legislation

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23  Tenant sharing accommodation with persons other than landlord

(1)     Where a tenant has the exclusive occupation of any accommodation (“the separate accommodation”), and

(a)     the terms as between the tenant and his landlord on which he holds the separate accommodation include the use of other accommodation (in this section referred to as “the shared accommodation”) in common with another person or other persons, not being or including the landlord, and

(b)     by reason only of the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (a) above, the separate accommodation would not, apart from this section, be a dwelling-house subject to a protected occupancy or statutory tenancy,

then, subject to subsection (2) below, the separate accommodation shall be deemed to be a dwelling-house subject to a protected occupancy or statutory tenancy as the case may be, and subsections (3) to (8) below shall have effect.

(2)     Subsection (1) above shall not apply in relation to accommodation which would, apart from this subsection,

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