Housing Act 1988, Paragraph 3 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 08 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
3E+WIn paragraph 3—
(a)after the words “residing with him” there shall be inserted “ “in the dwelling-house ”;
(b)for the words “period of 6 months” there shall be substituted “ “period of 2 years ”;
(c)for the words from “the statutory tenant” onwards there shall be substituted “ “entitled to an assured tenancy of the dwelling-house by succession ”; and
(d)at the end there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—
“(2)If the original tenant died within the period of 18 months beginning on the operative date, then, for the purposes of this paragraph, a person who was residing in the dwelling-house with the original tenant at the time of his death and for the period which began 6 months before the operative date and ended at the time of his death shall be taken to have been residing with the original tenant for the period of 2 years immediately before his death.”
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