{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-300",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-300.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/300",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "300",
  "heading": "Right to acquire freehold: abolition of low rent test",
  "text": "(1) In section 1(1) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (c. 88) (right to enfranchisement or extension of long leaseholds)—\n(a) in paragraph (a) omit “at a low rent”,\n(b) before “and” at the end of paragraph (a) insert—\n“(aa) in the case of a right to acquire an extended lease, his long tenancy is a tenancy at a low rent;”, and\n(c) in paragraph (b) after “he has” insert\n“—\n(i) in the case of a right to acquire the freehold, been tenant of the house under a long tenancy for the last two years; and\n(ii) in the case of a right to acquire an extended lease,”.\n(2) In that Act—\n(a) in section 1(1A) (excluded tenancies)—\n(i) for “subsection (1)(a) and (b)” substitute “ subsection (1) ”, and\n(ii) omit “at a low rent”, and\n(b) omit—\n(i) section 1A(2) (certain deemed low rent tenancies),\n(ii) section 1AA (additional right to enfranchisement where tenancy not low rent tenancy), and\n(iii) section 4A (alternative rent limits for purposes of section 1A(2)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 300 in force at 7.9.2009 for E. by S.I. 2009/2096, art. 2(2)(a) (with art. 3(1)(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/17/section/300",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:57.313988+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."
}