{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/schedule-7/paragraph-28",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/28",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After section 143MA insert—\n“Default flexible tenancies when no notice given under section 143MA\n143MB (1) This section applies where—\n(a) a landlord has the power to serve a notice under section 143MA on the tenant under a demoted tenancy but fails to do so, and\n(b) the tenancy comes to an end on or after the day on which paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016 comes fully into force.\n(2) On ceasing to be a demoted tenancy, the tenancy becomes a secure tenancy for a fixed term of 5 years that is a flexible tenancy.\n(3) The terms of the new tenancy are the same as those of the tenancy that it replaces, so far as those terms are compatible with—\n(a) a tenancy for a fixed term of 5 years, and\n(b) the statutory provisions relating to flexible tenancies (within the meaning given by section 143MA(5).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/22/schedule/7/paragraph/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:25.877565+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."
}