The Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1980
These regulations amend the Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) Regulations 1971, which regulate the procedure to be followed by rent assessment committees when a reference is made to them by the rent officer under Part IV of the Rent Act 1977. These regulations are consequent on the Housing Act 1980 and the Regulated Tenancies (Procedure) Regulations 1980. The 1980 Act gave new functions to rent assessment committees, which now exercise the functions formerly conferred on rent tribunals under the Rent Act 1977 and on the Lands Tribunal under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967(c.88). These regulations disapply the 1971 regulations when these functions are being exercised. The Regulated Tenancies (Procedure) Regulations 1980 modified Schedule 12 to the Rent Act 1977 (dealing with certificates of fair rent) to which the 1971 regulations refer, and the present regulations make the consequential changes.