Statutory Instruments
2016 No. 870
Rents And Rentcharges, England
The Rentcharges (Redemption Price) (England) Regulations 2016
Made
5th September 2016
Laid before Parliament
7th September 2016
Coming into force
1st October 2016
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 10(1) of the Rentcharges Act 1977( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Rentcharges (Redemption Price) (England) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 1st October 2016.
Redemption Price
2. —(1) For the purposes of—
(a) section 9 of the Rentcharges Act 1977( 2 ), and
(b) section 9 of the Rentcharges Act 1977 as applied by section 20(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927( 3 ),
the redemption price in relation to land in England is calculated by applying the following formula—
(2) For the purposes of the formula in paragraph (1)—
P = the redemption price;
R = the annual amount of the rentcharge (or, as the case may be, the rent to which section 20(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 applies) to be redeemed (in pounds sterling);
Y = the maturity rate, expressed as a decimal fraction, of the “over 30 not over 30.5 year” National Loans Fund interest rate; and
n = the period, expressed in years (rounding up any part of a year to a whole year), for which the rentcharge (or, as the case may be, the rent to which section 20(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 applies) would remain payable if it were not redeemed.
(3) In paragraph (2), the maturity rate is the published interest rate at the close of business on the last trading day of the week before the week in which instructions for redemption are served under section 9(4) of the Rentcharges Act 1977.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Gavin Barwell
Minister of State
Department for Communities and Local Government
5th September 2016
1977 c.30 ; section 10(1) was substituted by the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c.22) , section 137(3). By virtue of article 2(a) of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/672 ) the functions of the Secretary of State exercisable under the Rentcharges Act 1977 were transferred to the National Assembly so far as exercisable in relation to Wales.
Section 9 was amended by the Housing and Planning Act 2016, section 137(2).
1927 c.36 ; section 20 was amended by the Rentcharges Act 1977, Schedule 1, paragraph 3; the Housing Act 1980 (c.51) , section 143; and S.I. 1955/554 , 1965/143 , 1967/156 and 1970/1681 . By virtue of article 2(a) of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/672 ) the functions of the Secretary of State under section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 were transferred to the National Assembly so far as exercisable in relation to Wales.