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1965 Act keeps all these rights unchanged and gives similar securiiy
to tenants previously outside control prior to its enforcement and
who rent private unfurnished accommodation of a rateable value
not exceeding £400 in the Greater London Area and £200 elsewhere.
A new system is introduced regulating rents of the aforementioned
accommodation and rateable values. Rent Officers will
be appointed to assist landlords and tenants to agree on "fair" rents
and any case of disagreement will be referred to a Rent Assessment
Committee which will adjudicate after hearing both sides. Any
rent agreed by either method will be registered and will not be
varied except by new registration which will not be given within
three years unless there is some special reason.
The Borough Rent Officer's address is:—
23/25, Woolwich New Road, S.E.18.
(Telephone number WOOlwich 7010).
Furnished lettings remain under the Rent Tribunals, but there
are two important changes. First, the rateable value of such lettings
whereby the Tribunals can fix reasonable rents is raised from £40
to not exceeding £400 in the Greater London Area and £200 elsewhere.
Second, they can give tenants up to six months' security
instead of the original three.
The Rent Book (Forms of Notice) Regulations, 1965—These
Regulations made under Section 2(1) of the Landlord and Tenant
Act, 1962, became operative on 8th December, 1965. They are
consequential on the provisions of the Rent Act, 1965, and,
(i) revise the forms of notice which have to be inserted in rent
books and other similar documents which, under Section 1 of the
Landlord and Tenant Act, 1962, are required to be provided for
use where the rent is payable weekly in connection with:—
(a) premises let on tenancies to which the Rent Acts, 1920 to
1939, apply immediately before the coming into operation of
the Rent Act, 1965; and
(b) premises occupied under contracts to which the Furnished
Houses (Rent Control) Act, 1946, applied immediately before
that date, and under contracts to which the Act of 1946 applies
by virtue of the Rent Act, 1965;
(ii) prescribe a new form of notice which has to be inserted in rent
books and other similar documents which, under Section 1 of the
Act of 1962, are required to be provided for use where the rent is
payable weekly in connection with premises let on tenancies which
are regulated under the Rent Act, 1965.