Regulation which provided practitioners with annotated amendments as complete reprinted pages to residential landlord and tenant legislation in loose-leaf form. This important and prompt updating service incorporated the many amendments noted in this guide. The brown manual could often be seen on the bench of high court judges and in the hands of solicitors and barristers representing landlords and tenants in the courts. Scope of regulation The 1965 Act brought within protection most houses that were decontrolled by the 1957 Act, and newer houses that had never been controlled (i.e., newly erected or produced by conversion after 30 August 1954). It gave security to tenancies of most dwelling houses with rateable values of up to £400 in Greater London and £200 elsewhere not already controlled. The 1965 Act cleverly began by stating that a tenancy under which a dwelling house (which could be a house or part of a house) was let as a separate dwelling was a protected tenancy. There were certain exceptions (which were modified and added to in subsequent legislation). References are those in Part I of the later consolidated Rent Act 1977: Section 4 Dwelling-houses above certain rateable values Section 5 Tenancies at low rents Section 5A Certain shared ownership leases Section 6 Dwelling-houses let with land other than the site of the house Section 7 Dwelling-houses bona-fide let at a rent that includes board (a meal or meals)and/or attendance (services personal to the tenant) where the value to the tenant forms a substantial part of the rent Section 8 Lettings to students pursuing a course of studies Section 9 Where a dwelling-house was let for the purpose of a holiday Section 10 Agricultural tenancies Section 11 Licensed premises Section 12 Where the landlord was resident in the same house Section 13 Where the interest of the landlord belonged to Her Majesty in the right of the Crown Section 14 Local authority tenancies Section 15 Housing association tenancies Section 16 Housing co-operative tenancies Section 22 Tenants sharing accommodation with persons other than the landlord Section 24 Premises with a business use The Rent Act 1965 introduced three major innovations. Firstly, except for furnished lettings, it was the first time that a new long-term flexible approach had been brought to the old problem of rent control. It substituted the rent-fixing formula of earlier legislation with independent rent regulation by Rent Officers. This introduced the normal valuation principles