The Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Made: 11th March 1993

Laid before Parliament: 11th March 1993

Coming into force: 1st April 1993

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 74(1) of the Rent Act 1977[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and after consultation with the Council on Tribunals[^f00002], hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

Amendments

2

The Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) Regulations 1971[^f00003] are amended as follows—

• (a) in regulation 2(2) in the entry for “reference” after “13” insert “, 14A”; and

• (b) in regulation 2A(1) after “13” insert “, 14A”.

Signed

Michael Howard — Secretary of State for the Environment — 11th March 1993

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 11th March 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) Regulations 1971 (which regulate the procedure to be followed by rent assessment committees) to take account of the functions of rent assessment committees under section 14A of the Housing Act 1988 in relation to increases in sums payable under assured tenancies and assured agricultural occupancies in respect of council tax.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1977 c. 42; section 74(1)(b) was amended by section 41(1) of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50) and paragraph 51 of Schedule 11 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).

[^f00002]: See section 8(1) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992 (c. 53).

[^f00003]: S.I. 1971/1065; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/2200 and 1990/427.