{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-131",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-131.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/131",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "131",
  "heading": "Persons qualified to succeed tenant.",
  "text": "A person is qualified to succeed the tenant under an introductory tenancy if he occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home at the time of the tenant’s death and either—\n(a) he is the tenant’s spouse or civil partner , or\n(b) he is another member of the tenant’s family and has resided with the tenant throughout the period of twelve months ending with the tenant’s death;\nunless, in either case, the tenant was himself a successor, as defined in section 132.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 131(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership (Family Proceedings and Housing Consequential Amendments) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3336), arts. 1, 20"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2022/1166",
      "affecting_title": "The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/22",
      "affecting_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/131",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:46.595645+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."
}