Section 24 — Housing Act 1988: Assured agricultural occupancies.

Assured agricultural occupancies. 24 1 A tenancy or licence of a dwelling-house is for the purposes of this Part of this Act an “ assured agricultural occupancy ” if—

a it is of a description specified in subsection (2) below;

and b by virtue of any provision of Schedule 3 to this Act the agricultural worker condition is for the time being fulfilled with respect to the dwelling-house subject to the tenancy or licence. 1A Subsection (1) has effect subject to section 24A(1) (opting out).

2 The following are the tenancies and licences referred to in subsection (1)(a) above—

a an assured tenancy which is not an assured shorthold tenancy ;

b a tenancy which does not fall within paragraph (a) above by reason only of paragraph 3 , 3A, 3B or paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to this Act ( or more than one of those paragraphs ) and is not an excepted tenancy ;

and c a licence under which a person has the exclusive occupation of a dwelling-house as a separate dwelling and which, if it conferred a sufficient interest in land to be a tenancy, would be a tenancy falling within paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) above. 2A For the purposes of subsection (2)(b) above, a tenancy is an excepted tenancy if it is—

a a tenancy of an agricultural holding within the meaning of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 in relation to which that Act applies, or b a farm business tenancy within the meaning of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 3 For the purposes of Chapter I above and the following provisions of this Chapter, every assured agricultural occupancy which is not an assured tenancy shall be treated as if it were such a tenancy , and every opted-out tenancy, is to be treated as if it were an assured tenancy and any reference to a tenant, a landlord or any other expression appropriate to a tenancy shall be construed accordingly; but the provisions of Chapter I above shall have effect in relation to every assured agricultural occupancy subject to the provisions of this Chapter.

4 Section 14 above shall apply in relation to an assured agricultural occupancy as if in subsection (1) of that section the reference to an assured tenancy were a reference to an assured agricultural occupancy.