{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-74",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-74.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/74",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Leaving the social housing stock: ending of lease",
  "text": "(1) A dwelling ceases to be social housing if—\n(a) the provider holds a leasehold interest in the dwelling, and\n(b) the leasehold interest determines (whether by effluxion of time or in any other way).\n(2) But subsection (1) does not apply if, immediately before the leasehold interest determines, the lessor was—\n(a) an associate or subsidiary of the provider, or\n(b) a registered provider.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 74(1)(b) substituted (20.9.2023) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 37(1)(b), 46(3) (with s. 37(2)); S.I. 2023/1001, reg. 2(r)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 74(2) substituted (20.9.2023) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 37(1)(c), 46(3) (with s. 37(2)); S.I. 2023/1001, reg. 2(r)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 74 heading substituted (20.9.2023) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 37(1)(a), 46(3) (with s. 37(2)); S.I. 2023/1001, reg. 2(r)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 74 in force at 8.9.2008 for specified purposes by S.I. 2008/2358, art. 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 74 in force at 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/17/section/74",
    "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."
}