{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/assured-tenancies-private-rented-sector-prescribed-forms-and-transitional-provisions-england-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/assured-tenancies-private-rented-sector-prescribed-forms-and-transitional-provisions-england-regulations-2026/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/354",
  "legislation_title": "The Assured Tenancies (Private Rented Sector) (Prescribed Forms and Transitional Provisions) (England) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/assured-tenancies-private-rented-sector-prescribed-forms-and-transitional-provisions-england-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Housing Act 1988;\n“the 2025 Act” means the Renters’ Rights Act 2025;\n“private assured tenancy” means an assured tenancy that is not a social housing assured tenancy;\n“social housing assured tenancy” means an assured tenancy of social housing (within the meaning of Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008) where the landlord is a private registered provider of social housing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2025 c. 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 1 of the Housing Act 1988 for the definition of “assured tenancy”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2008 c. 17. See section 68 for the definition of “social housing”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/354/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:03:25.275860+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}