{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-229",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-229.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/229",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "229",
  "heading": "Meaning of “lease” and “tenancy” and related expressions.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act “lease” and “tenancy” have the same meaning.\n(2) Both expressions include—\n(a) a sub-lease or a sub-tenancy, and\n(b) an agreement for a lease or tenancy (or sub-lease or sub-tenancy).\n(3) The expressions “lessor” and “lessee” and “landlord” and “tenant”, and references to letting, to the grant of a lease or to covenants or terms, shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/229",
    "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."
}