{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/schedule-3A/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/schedule-3A/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/3A/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This Schedule applies to the disposal by a local authority of an interest in land as a result of which a secure tenant or an introductory tenant of the authority will become the tenant of a private sector landlord.\n(2) For the purposes of this Schedule the grant of an option which if exercised would result in a secure tenant or an introductory tenant of a local authority becoming the tenant of a private sector landlord shall be treated as a disposal of the interest which is the subject of the option.\n(3) Where a disposal of land by a local authority is in part a disposal to which this Schedule applies, the provisions of this Schedule apply to that part as to a separate disposal.\n(4) In this paragraph “ private sector landlord ” means a person other than an authority or body within section 80 (the landlord condition for secure tenancies).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3A inserted by Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63, SIF 61), s. 6(2)(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3A para. 1(1)(2) inserted (12.2.1997) by S.I. 1997/74, art. 2, Sch. para. 3(l)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/schedule/3A/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}