{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988/section-19A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988/section-19A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/50",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988",
  "path": "section/19A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19A",
  "heading": "Assured shorthold tenancies: post-Housing Act 1996 tenancies.",
  "text": "An assured tenancy which—\n(a) is entered into on or after the day on which section 96 of the Housing Act 1996 comes into force (otherwise than pursuant to a contract made before that day), or\n(b) comes into being by virtue of section 5 above on the coming to an end of an assured tenancy within paragraph (a) above,\nis an assured shorthold tenancy unless it falls within any paragraph in Schedule 2A to this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 2 omitted (1.5.2026 for specified purposes) by virtue of Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (c. 26), ss. 2(b), 145(1)(8) (with ss. 138, 146(1), 147(1)(2), Sch. 6 paras. 1, 3, 4, 16, 17); S.I. 2026/421, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 19A inserted (28.2.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 96(1); S.I. 1997/225, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/section/19A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:37.392139+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."
}