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Rent (Scotland) Act 1984

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56 Rents to be registrable under Part V.

(1) There shall be a separate part of the register under Part V of this Act in which rents may be registered for dwelling-houses which are let, or are, or are to be, available for letting, under a tenancy to which sections 55 to 59 of this Act apply. (2) Sections 22 to 27, 45 to 49A . . . , section 50(2) and section 53 above and Schedules 5 and 6 to this Act (and no other provisions of this Act) shall apply to a tenancy to which the said sections 55 to 59 apply, and, in their application to such tenancies, shall, in relation to that part of the register, have effect as if for any reference in those provisions to a regulated tenancy there were substituted a reference to a tenancy to which the said sections 55 to 59 apply. (3) Registration in the said part of the register shall take effect on the date of registration: Provided that registration before 1st January 1973 shall be provisional only until that date, and the date of registration shall be 1st January 1973. (4) From the date of registration any previous registration of a rent for the dwelling-house shall cease to have effect. (5) A rent registered in any part of the register for a dwelling-house, which becomes or ceases to be a dwelling-house under a tenancy to which the said sections 55 to 59 apply, shall be as effective as if it were registered in any other part of the register. (6) Subject to subsection (5) above, references in the said sections 55 to 59 to registration are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to registration pursuant to this section.

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56 Rents to be registrable under Part V.

(1) There shall be a separate part of the register under Part V of this Act in which rents may be registered for dwelling-houses which are let, or are, or are to be, available for letting, under a tenancy to which sections 55 to 59 of this Act apply. (2) Sections 22 to 27, 45 to 49A . . . , section 50(2) and section 53 above and Schedules 5 and 6 to this Act (and no other provisions of this Act) shall apply to a tenancy to which the said sections 55 to 59 apply, and, in their application to such tenancies, shall, in relation to that part of the register, have effect as if for any reference in those provisions to a regulated tenancy there were substituted a reference to a tenancy to which the said sections 55 to 59 apply. (3) Registration in the said part of the register shall take effect on the date of registration: Provided that registration before 1st January 1973 shall be provisional only until that date, and the date of registration shall be 1st January 1973. (4) From the date of registration any previous registration of a rent for the dwelling-house shall cease to have effect. (5) A rent registered in any part of the register for a dwelling-house, which becomes or ceases to be a dwelling-house under a tenancy to which the said sections 55 to 59 apply, shall be as effective as if it were registered in any other part of the register. (6) Subject to subsection (5) above, references in the said sections 55 to 59 to registration are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to registration pursuant to this section.

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