131 Persons qualified to succeed tenant.E+W
A person is qualified to succeed the tenant under an introductory 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 132.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 131(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership (Family Proceedings and Housing Consequential Amendments) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3336), arts. 1, 20