s 3 Provision as to rights of tenants under 2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 80, or at common law.
(1) The tenant of any dwelling house held under a short lease at a rent not exceeding ninety pounds per annum shall not be entitled to any abatement of rent in respect of war damage thereto except in accordance with the provisions of section one of this Act, and accordingly the power of the Court under section four of the War Damage to Land (Scotland) Act 1939, to modify or suspend any term of a lease shall not extend to the rent payable for any such dwelling house as aforesaid. (2) Nothing in this Act shall prejudice or affect any right which the tenant of a dwelling house which has sustained war damage may have at common law to abandon his lease, or, save as provided in the last foregoing subsection, the powers of the court under any enactment in relation to any such dwelling house.