Housing Act 1985

558 Interpretation of ss. 553 to 557.E+W

(1)In sections 553 to 557 (effect of repurchase on occupier)—

(a)dwelling-house” has the same meaning as in Part IV (secure tenancies);

(b)occupier”, in relation to a dwelling-house, means a person who occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home or (in the case of a statutory tenant) as his residence;

(c)references to the grant of a secure tenancy are to the grant of a tenancy which would be a secure tenancy assuming that the tenant under the tenancy occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home