Part IIS Rented Accommodation

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. II (ss. 12–55) excluded by Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26, SIF 61), ss. 103, 128, 145, 335

C4Pt. 2 excluded by 2002 c. 29, s. 269A(5) (as inserted (27.4.2017 for specified purposes, 31.1.2018 in so far as not already in force) by Criminal Finances Act 2017 (c. 22), ss. 29(5), 58(1)(6); S.I. 2018/78, reg. 3(l))

Assured tenanciesS

12 Assured tenancies.S

(1)A tenancy under which a house is let as a separate dwelling is for the purposes of this Act an assured tenancy if and so long as—

(a)the tenant or, as the case may be, at least one of the joint tenants is an individual; and

(b)the tenant or, as the case may be, at least one of the joint tenants occupies the house as his only or principal home; and

(c)the tenancy is not one which, by virtue of subsection [F1(1A) or] (2) below, cannot be an assured tenancy.

[F2(1A)A tenancy cannot be an assured tenancy if it is granted on or after [F31 December 2017] .]

(2)If and so long as a tenancy falls within any paragraph of Schedule 4 to this Act, it cannot be an assured tenancy; and in that Schedule “tenancy” means a tenancy under which a house is let as a separate dwelling.

[F4(3)Subsection (1) is subject to section 46A.]

Textual Amendments