PART 7 E+WHousing

CHAPTER 2E+WSocial housing: tenure reform

Other provisions relating to tenancies of social housingE+W

166Repairing obligations in leases of seven years or moreE+W

In section 13 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (leases to which the provisions about repairing obligations in section 11 of that Act apply) after subsection (1) insert—

(1A)Section 11 also applies to a lease of a dwelling-house in England granted on or after the day on which section 166 of the Localism Act 2011 came into force which is—

(a)a secure tenancy for a fixed term of seven years or more granted by a person within section 80(1) of the Housing Act 1985 (secure tenancies: the landlord condition), or

(b)an assured tenancy for a fixed term of seven years or more that—

(i)is not a shared ownership lease, and

(ii)is granted by a private registered provider of social housing.

(1B)In subsection (1A)—

Commencement Information

I1S. 166 in force at 1.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(c) (with arts. 9, 11, 14, 15, 17)