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Regulation 2 General interpretation

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(1)

In these Regulations–

  • “the Act” means the Housing Act 1988;

  • “applicant” means a person who has made an application claiming to exercise the right conferred by Part IV of the Act;

  • “business tenant” means a tenant under a tenancy to which Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954f1 applies;

  • “landlord” means a public sector landlord to whom an application has been made to exercise the right conferred by Part IV of the Act;

  • “teller” means a person independent from the applicant to whom the tenants consulted in accordance with section 102 of the Act are to give notice of whether or not they wish to continue as tenants of the landlord.

(2)

References in these Regulations to sections by number are references to sections bearing those numbers in the Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1954 c. 56.