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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonhold-and-leasehold-reform-act-2002/schedule-10/paragraph-15",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/15",
  "legislation_title": "Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonhold-and-leasehold-reform-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Trust of service charges paid by only one tenant",
  "text": "(1) Section 42 of the 1987 Act (service charge contributions of tenants to be held in trust) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) after “costs” insert “ , or the tenant of a dwelling may be required under the terms of his lease to contribute to costs to which no other tenant of a dwelling may be required to contribute, ”,\n(b) at the end of the definition of “the contributing tenants” insert “ and “the sole contributing tenant” means that tenant; ”, and\n(c) in the definition of “the payee”, for “under the terms of their leases” substitute “ , or that tenant, under the terms of their leases, or his lease ”.\n(3) In subsection (2), after “tenants” insert “ , or the sole contributing tenant, ”.\n(4) In subsection (3), insert at the end “ , or the person who is the sole contributing tenant for the time being. ”\n(5) In subsection (4), insert at the end “ or the sole contributing tenant shall be treated as so entitled to the residue of any such fund. ”\n(6) In subsection (6), for “a contributing tenant” substitute “ any of the contributing tenants ”.\n(7) In subsection (7), for “If after the termination of any such lease there are no longer any contributing tenants,” substitute “ On the termination of the lease of the last of the contributing tenants, or of the lease of the sole contributing tenant, ”.\n(8) In subsection (8)—\n(a) for “a contributing tenant” substitute “ any of the contributing tenants, or the sole contributing tenant, ”, and\n(b) after “his lease” insert “ (whenever it was granted) ”.\n(9) In subsection (9)—\n(a) after “so created” insert “ , in the case of a lease of any of the contributing tenants, ”, and\n(b) insert at the end “ or, in the case of the lease of the sole contributing tenant, before the commencement of paragraph 15 of Schedule 10 to the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. ”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 15 wholly in force at 31.5.2005; para. 15 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 181(1); para. 15 in force at 28.2.2005 for E. by S.I. 2004/3056, art. 3(b); para. 15 in force at 31.5.2005 for W. by S.I. 2005/1353, art. 2(b)"
    }
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      "affecting_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008"
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      "affecting_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/15/schedule/10/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:35.598757+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."
}