{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-change-of-landlord-regulations-1989/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-change-of-landlord-regulations-1989/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/367",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Change of Landlord) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-change-of-landlord-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Tenants prescribed for the purposes of section 100(1)(b)",
  "text": "The following descriptions of tenants of flats are prescribed for the purposes of section 100(1)(b) –\n(a) a tenant whose tenancy is as described in any of paragraphs 2 to 7, 10 or 11 of Schedule 1 to the 1985 Act (tenancies which are not secure tenancies) who was in occupation on the relevant date, unless that tenancy is a business tenancy or a long tenancy;\nb a tenant of a flat which, on the relevant date, was occupied by a secure tenant in the circumstances set out in any of paragraphs 5, 7, or 9 to 11 of Schedule 5 to the 1985 Act (exceptions to the right to buy);\n(c) a secure tenant who –\n(i) on the relevant date was obliged to give up possession of the flat in pursuance of an order of the court or was to have been so obliged at a date specified in the order, and\n(ii) does not satisfy regulation 8(b) below;\n(d) a statutory successor to a qualifying tenant where the qualifying tenant had been consulted in accordance with section 102 and indicated his wish to continue to occupy the dwelling-house as tenant of the landlord;\n(e) a statutory successor to a qualifying tenant, where that qualifying tenant occupied on the relevant date but did not give notice in the prescribed manner whether or not he wished to remain a tenant of the landlord, and where that successor within the 21 day period ending at the end of the consultation period has provided the applicant with a certificate from his landlord to the effect that he is such a successor;\n(f) a qualifying tenant who has, within the 21 day period ending at the end of the consultation period, provided the applicant with a certificate from the landlord to the effect that his tenancy was, after the relevant date, assigned to him by way of exchange, by a qualifying tenant whose tenancy commenced before the relevant date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1033",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing (Change of Landlord) (Amendment) Regulations 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/367/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:48:22.630383+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."
}