{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/section-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/section-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/69",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Associations Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Minor definitions.",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“assured tenancy” has, in England and Wales, the same meaning as in Part I of the Housing Act 1988 and, in Scotland, the same meaning as in Part II of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988;\n“assured agricultural occupancy” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Housing Act 1988.\n“mental disorder” has the same meaning as in the Mental Health Act 1983 or the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984;\n“occupation contract” has the same meaning as in section 7 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1);\n“secure tenancy” has the same meaning as in section 79 of the Housing Act 1985 or 44 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 39 repealed (S.) (1.11.2001) by 2001 asp 10, s. 112, Sch. 10 para. 11(4); S.S.I. 2001/336, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. II Table (subject to transitional provisions and savings in art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definitions inserted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50), s. 59(2)(3)(4), Sch. 6 Pt. I para. 25"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 39: definition of “mental disorder” repealed (E.W.) (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 4(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with art. 4(2)(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 39: words in definition of “mental disorder”repealed (S.) (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 4(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II (with art. 4(2)(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 39 inserted (W.) (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 12(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 39: by Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26), ss. 335, 339(2), Sch. 23 para. 31(3) it is provided that in the definition of “secure tenancy” for the words “10 of the Tenants'; Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Act 1980” there shall be substituted (S.) the words “44 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987” and by Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43), s. 72, Sch. 9 para. 8 it is provided that in s. 39, in the definition of “secure tenancy” for the words “section 10 of the Tenants'; Rights Etc. (Scotland) Act 1980” there shall be substituted the words “44 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987”"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 39: definition repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIV Gp. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1983 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1984 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1985 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/69/section/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:44.997710+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."
}