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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-carbon-emissions-reduction-order-2008/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/188",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-carbon-emissions-reduction-order-2008",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In relation to England and Wales, householder means a person who is—\n(a) a freeholder;\n(b) in the case of England only, a leaseholder with a term of 21 years or more unexpired at the time the specified reduction is promoted; or\n(bb) in the case of Wales only, a holder of a secure contract (within the meaning given by section 8 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016), or an introductory standard contract (within the meaning given by section 16 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016), except where the landlord is—\n(i) a private registered provider of social housing (within the meaning given by section 80(3) of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008);\n(ii) a registered social landlord (being a person registered in the register maintained under section 1 of the Housing Act 1996); or\n(iii) a private landlord (within the meaning given by section 10 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016); or\n(c) a tenant, including a sub-tenant, who has—\n(i) a protected occupancy or statutory tenancy under the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976;\n(ii) a statutory tenancy under the Rent Act 1977;\n(iii) a secure tenancy under Part IV of the Housing Act 1985 or an introductory tenancy under Chapter I of Part V of the Housing Act 1996;\n(iv) a licence to occupy which meets the conditions in paragraph 12(a) and (b) Schedule 1 to the Housing Act 1985 (almshouse licences); or\n(v) an assured agricultural occupancy under Part I of the Housing Act 1988, at the time the action is promoted to him.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 1(b) omitted (W.) (1.12.2022) by virtue of The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/907), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 25(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1(bb) inserted (W.) (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/907), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 25(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 31.1.2008, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c.80; sections 2 and 3 make provision for protected occupancy and section 4 for statutory tenancy. Section 3 has been amended by section 76(3) of the Housing Act 1980 (c.51) and section 81 of and Schedule 8 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33), section 4 by those provisions and section 155 and paragraph 72 of Schedule 23 to the Rent Act 1977 (c.42) and sections 39 and 140 of and Schedule 4 (Part II) and Schedule 18 to the Housing Act 1988 (c.50). Section 5 was last amended by sections 128 and 137 of and Schedule 6 to the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c.16). There are other amendments to the 1976 Act not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1977 c.42, as last amended by paragraph 94 of Part I of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1985 c.68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1996 c.52, as last amended by paragraphs 256 to 258 of Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Act 1985 was amended by section 78(1) of and paragraph 12 of Schedule 6 to the Charities Act 1992 (c.41)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1988 c.50."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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