PART IPublic Sector Tenants
CHAPTER IISecurity of Tenure and Rights of Secure Tenants
Secure tenancies
28Secure tenancies
1
A tenancy under which a dwelling-house is let as a separate dwelling is a secure tenancy at any time when the conditions described below as the landlord condition and the tenant condition are satisfied, but subject to the exceptions in Schedule 3 to this Act and to subsection (5) below and sections 37 and 49 of this Act.
2
The landlord condition is that—
a
the interest of the landlord belongs to one of the bodies mentioned in subsection (4) below; or
b
the interest of the landlord belongs to a housing association falling within subsection (3) of section 15 of the 1977 Act; or
c
the interest of the landlord belongs to a housing co-operative and the dwelling-house is comprised in a housing co-operative agreement; or
d
the interest of the landlord belongs to a county council and the tenancy was granted by it in the exercise of the reserve powers conferred on county councils by section 194 of the [1972 c. 70.] Local Government Act 1972.
3
The tenant condition is that the tenant is an individual and occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home; or, where the tenancy is a joint tenancy, that each of the joint tenants is an individual and at least one of them occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home.
4
The bodies referred to in subsection (2) (a) above are—
a
a local authority;
b
the Commission for the New Towns;
c
a development corporation;
d
the Housing Corporation;
e
a housing trust which is a charity within the meaning of the [1960 c. 58.] Charities Act 1960 ; and
f
the Development Board for Rural Wales.
5
Where a secure tenancy is a tenancy for a term certain and the tenant dies, the tenancy remains a secure tenancy until either—
a
the tenancy is vested or otherwise disposed of in the course of the administration of the tenant's estate; or
b
it is known that when the tenancy has been so vested or disposed of it will not be a secure tenancy.