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The Housing (Right to Acquire) Regulations 1997

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Meaning of “secure tenancy” and “secure tenant”

185.—(1) References in this Part to a secure tenancy or a secure tenant in relation to a time before 26th August 1984 are to a tenancy which would have been a secure tenancy if Chapter II of Part I of the [1980 c. 51.] Housing Act 1980 and Part I of the [1984 c. 29.] Housing and Building Control Act 1984 and had then been in force or to a person who would then have been a secure tenant.

(2) For the purpose of determining whether a person would have been a secure tenant and his tenancy a secure tenancy—

(a)a predecessor of a local authority shall be deemed to have been such an authority, and

(b)a housing association shall be deemed to have been registered if it is or was a registered social landlord at any later time.

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