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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A licence to occupy a dwelling-house is not a secure tenancy if—\n(a) the dwelling-house is an almshouse, and\n(b) the licence was granted by or on behalf of a charity which—\n(i) is authorised under its trusts to maintain the dwelling-house as an almshouse, and\n(ii) has no power under its trusts to grant a tenancy of the dwelling-house;\nand in this paragraph “ almshouse ” means any premises maintained as an almshouse, whether they are called an almshouse or not; and “ trusts ”, in relation to a charity, means the provisions establishing it as a charity and regulating its purposes and administration, whether those provisions take effect by way of trust or not.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 substituted (1.9.1992) by Charities Act 1992 (c. 41), s. 78(1), Sch. 6 para. 12; S.I. 1992/1900, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/22",
      "affecting_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/19",
      "affecting_title": "Immigration Act 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/schedule/1/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+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."
}