{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/schedule-7/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/schedule-7/paragraph-7.json",
  "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/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 82A (demoted tenancy) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (4) insert—\n“(4A) The court may not make a demotion order in relation to a secure tenancy of a dwelling-house in England if—\n(a) the landlord is a local housing authority or housing action trust, and\n(b) the term has less than 1 year and 9 months left to run\n(4B) But subsection (4A) does not apply to a tenancy to which an exception in section 86A(2) or (3) applies.”\n(3) In subsection (5), for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) the period or term of the tenancy (but see subsection (6));”.\n(4) For subsection (6) substitute—\n“(6) Subsection (5)(b) does not apply if—\n(a) the secure tenancy was for a fixed term and was an old-style secure tenancy or a flexible tenancy, or\n(b) the secure tenancy was for a fixed term and was a tenancy of a dwelling-house in Wales,\nand in such a case the demoted tenancy is a weekly periodic tenancy.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/22/schedule/7/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}