PART IV SECURE TENANCIES AND RIGHTS OF SECURE TENANTS
Succession on death of tenant
87 Persons qualified to succeed tenant.
A person is qualified to succeed the tenant under a secure tenancy if he occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home at the time of the tenant’s death and either—
(a)
he is the tenant’s spouse F1or civil partner , or
(b)
he is another member of the tenant’s family and has resided with the tenant throughout the period of twelve months ending with the tenant’s death;
unless, in either case, the tenant was himself a successor, as defined in section 88.