{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-102",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-102.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/102",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "102",
  "heading": "Variation of terms of secure tenancy.",
  "text": "(1) The terms of a secure tenancy may be varied in the following ways, and not otherwise—\n(a) by agreement between the landlord and the tenant;\n(b) to the extent that the variation relates to rent or to payments in respect of rates , council taxor services, by the landlord or the tenant in accordance with a provision in the lease or agreement creating the tenancy, or in an agreement varying it;\n(c) in accordance with section 103 (notice of variation of periodic tenancy).\n(2) References in this section and section 103 to variation include addition and deletion; and for the purposes of this section the conversion of a monthly tenancy into a weekly tenancy, or a weekly tenancy into a monthly tenancy, is a variation of a term of the tenancy, but a variation of the premises let under a tenancy is not.\n(3) This section and section 103 do not apply to a term of a tenancy which—\n(a) is implied by an enactment, or\n(b) may be varied under section 93 of the Rent Act 1977 (housing association and other tenancies: increase of rent without notice to quit).\n(4) This section and section 103 apply in relation to the terms of a periodic tenancy arising by virtue of section 86 (periodic tenancy arising on termination of a fixed term) as they would have applied to the terms of the first tenancy mentioned in that section had that tenancy been a periodic tenancy.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in S. 102(1)(b) inserted (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/651, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1977 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 102 modified (16.3.2016 for specified purposes) by Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 (c. 7), ss. 28, 31(9), 36(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 102 modified (16.3.2016 for specified purposes, 1.4.2016 in so far as not already in force) by Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 (c. 7), ss. 31(9), 36(5); S.I. 2016/394, reg. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/102",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}