{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-143",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-143.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/143",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "143",
  "heading": "Right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) and sections 142A, 143A and 143B, where—\n(a) a secure tenant has claimed to exercise the right to buy, and\n(b) his right to buy has been established and his notice claiming to exercise it remains in force,\nhe also has the right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms in accordance with the following provisions of this Part.\n(2) The right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms cannot be exercised if the exercise of the right to buy is precluded by section 121 (circumstances in which right to buy cannot be exercised).\n(3) Where the right to buy belongs to two or more persons jointly, the right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms also belongs to them jointly.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 143, 143A, 143B substituted for s. 143 (2.9.1993 so far as confers on Secretary of State a power to make orders, regulations or declarations, 11.10.1993 in so far as it is not in force) by 1993 c. 28, s. 108; S.I. 1993/2134, arts. 2,3, 4(b) (with saving in Sch. 1 para. 4(1))."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 143(1) inserted (18.11.2004) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), s. 190(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 143-151 amended (11.10.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 107(c); S.I. 1993/2134, arts. 2, 4(b) (with saving in Sch. 1 para. 4(1))."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/143",
    "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."
}