# Housing Act 1988, Paragraph 3


In paragraph 3—
(a) after the words “residing with him” there shall be inserted “ “in the dwelling-house ”;
(b) for the words “period of 6 months” there shall be substituted “ “period of 2 years ”;
(c) for the words from “the statutory tenant” onwards there shall be substituted “ “entitled to an assured tenancy of the dwelling-house by succession ”; and
(d) at the end there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—
“(2) If the original tenant died within the period of 18 months beginning on the operative date, then, for the purposes of this paragraph, a person who was residing in the dwelling-house with the original tenant at the time of his death and for the period which began 6 months before the operative date and ended at the time of his death shall be taken to have been residing with the original tenant for the period of 2 years immediately before his death.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/schedule/4/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988/schedule-4/paragraph-3
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