{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988/section-21A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988/section-21A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/50",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988",
  "path": "section/21A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21A",
  "heading": "Compliance with prescribed legal requirements",
  "text": "(1) A notice under subsection (1) or (4) of section 21 may not be given in relation to an assured shorthold tenancy of a dwelling-house in England at a time when the landlord is in breach of a prescribed requirement.\n(2) The requirements that may be prescribed are requirements imposed on landlords by any enactment and which relate to—\n(a) the condition of dwelling-houses or their common parts,\n(b) the health and safety of occupiers of dwelling-houses, or\n(c) the energy performance of dwelling-houses.\n(3) In subsection (2) “ enactment ” includes an enactment contained in subordinate legislation within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978.\n(4) For the purposes of subsection (2)(a) “ common parts ” has the same meaning as in Ground 13 in Part 2 of Schedule 2.\n(5) A statutory instrument containing regulations made under this section is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.",
  "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. 21A inserted (1.7.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), ss. 38, 115(7) (with s. 41); S.I. 2015/994, arts. 10(b), 11(k)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/section/21A",
    "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."
}