PART 7Housing
CHAPTER 2Social housing: tenure reform
Other provisions relating to tenancies of social housing
166Repairing obligations in leases of seven years or more
“(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)—
“assured tenancy” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Housing Act 1988;
“secure tenancy” has the meaning given by section 79 of the Housing Act 1985; and
“shared ownership lease” means a lease—
(a)
granted on payment of a premium calculated by reference to a percentage of the value of the dwelling-house or of the cost of providing it, or
(b)
under which the lessee (or the lessee's personal representatives) will or may be entitled to a sum calculated by reference, directly or indirectly, to the value of the dwelling-house.”