{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-119",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-119.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/119",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "119",
  "heading": "Qualifying period for right to buy.",
  "text": "(A1) The right to buy does not arise unless the period which, in accordance with Schedule 4, is to be taken into account for the purposes of this section is at least three years.\n(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Where the secure tenancy is a joint tenancy the condition in subsection (A1) ... need be satisfied with respect to one only of the joint tenants.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 119(A1) inserted (26.5.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), ss. 28(2), 115(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 119(A1) substituted (26.1.2019) by The Abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Rights (Wales) Act 2018 (Consequential Amendments and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/110), regs. 1, 3(c)(i) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 119(1) omitted (26.1.2019) by virtue of The Abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Rights (Wales) Act 2018 (Consequential Amendments and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/110), regs. 1, 3(c)(ii) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 119(2) inserted (26.5.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), ss. 28(4), 115(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 119(2) omitted (26.1.2019) by virtue of The Abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Rights (Wales) Act 2018 (Consequential Amendments and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/110), regs. 1, 3(c)(iii) (with reg. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/119",
    "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."
  }
}