{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-185",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-185.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/185",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "185",
  "heading": "Meaning of “secure tenancy” and “secure tenant”.",
  "text": "(1) References in this Part to a secure tenancy or a secure tenant in relation to a time before 26th August 1984 are to a tenancy which would have been a secure tenancy if Chapter II of Part I of the Housing Act 1980 and Part I of the Housing and Building Control Act 1984 had then been in force or to a person who would then have been a secure tenant.\n(2) For the purpose of determining whether a person would have been a secure tenant and his tenancy a secure tenancy—\n(a) a predecessor of a local authority shall be deemed to have been such an authority, and\n(b) a housing association shall be deemed to have been registered if it is or was a private registered provider of social housing orregistered social landlord at any later time.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 185(2)(b) substituted (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 14(16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 185(2)(b) inserted (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 28 (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1980 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1984 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/185",
    "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."
}