{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-558",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-558.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/558",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "558",
  "heading": "Interpretation of ss. 553 to 557.",
  "text": "(1) In sections 553 to 557 (effect of repurchase on occupier)—\n(a) “dwelling-house” has the same meaning as in Part IV (secure tenancies);\n(b) “occupier”, in relation to a dwelling-house, means a person who occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home or (in the case of a statutory tenant) as his residence;\n(c) references to the grant of a secure tenancy are to the grant of a tenancy which would be a secure tenancy assuming that the tenant under the tenancy occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home\n(d) references to the grant of a secure contract are to the grant of an occupation contract which would be a secure contract (within the meaning given by section 8 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1)) assuming that the contract-holder under the contract occupies the dwelling as their only or principal home;\n(e) the following terms have the same meaning as in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016—\n(i) “contract-holder” (see section 7 (see also section 48) of that Act);\n(ii) “occupation contract” (see section 7 of that Act).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 558(d)(e) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 11(25) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2022/1172, regs. 2, 11, 12, 19)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/558",
    "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."
  }
}