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Changes over time for: Paragraph 2


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Version Superseded: 20/10/2014
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Housing Act 1985, Paragraph 2 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 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.

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2(1)The conveyance or grant shall, by virtue of this Schedule, have the effect stated in sub-paragraph (2) as regards—E+W
(a)rights of support for a building or part of a building;
(b)rights to the access of light and air to a building or part of a building;
(c)rights to the passage of water or of gas or other piped fuel, or to the drainage or disposal of water, sewage, smoke or fumes, or to the use or maintenance of pipes or other installations for such passage, drainage or disposal;
(d)rights to the use or maintenance of cables or other installations for the supply of electricity, for the telephone or for the receipt directly or by landline of visual or other wireless transmissions.
(2)The effect is—
(a)to grant with the dwelling-house all such easements and rights over other property, so far as the landlord is capable of granting them, as are necessary to secure to the tenant as nearly as may be the same rights as at the relevant time were available to him under or by virtue of the secure tenancy or an agreement collateral to it, or under or by virtue of a grant, reservation or agreement made on the severance of the dwelling-house from other property then comprised in the same tenancy; and
(b)to make the dwelling-house subject to all such easements and rights for the benefit of other property as are capable of existing in law and are necessary to secure to the person interested in the other property as nearly as may be the same rights as at the relevant time were available against the tenant under or by virtue of the secure tenancy or an agreement collateral to it, or under or by virtue of a grant, reservation or agreement made as mentioned in paragraph (a).
(3)This paragraph—
(a)does not restrict any wider operation which the conveyance or grant may have apart from this paragraph; but
(b)is subject to any provision to the contrary that may be included in the conveyance or grant with the consent of the tenant.
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