{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-93",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-93.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/93",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "93",
  "heading": "Lodgers and subletting.",
  "text": "(1) It is a term of every secure tenancy that the tenant—\n(a) may allow any persons to reside as lodgers in the dwelling-house, but\n(b) will not, without the written consent of the landlord, sublet or part with possession of part of the dwelling-house.\n(2) If the tenant under a secure tenancy parts with the possession of the dwelling-house or sublets the whole of it (or sublets first part of it and then the remainder), the tenancy ceases to be a secure tenancy and cannot subsequently become a secure tenancy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/93",
    "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."
  }
}