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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-change-of-landlord-regulations-1989/regulation-8",
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  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Tenants prescribed for the purposes of section 100(2)(b)",
  "text": "(1) Tenants of the following descriptions are prescribed for the purposes of section 100(2)(b) where they continue to occupy the dwelling-house during the consultation period –\n(a) a qualifying tenant of an added dwelling-house whose tenancy commenced before the relevant date;\n(b) a secure tenant who is precluded from being a qualifying tenant by section 93(4)(a) and who, not less than 21 days before the end of the consultation period, has provided the applicant with a certificate from the landlord to the effect that it no longer intends to enforce the possession order against him;\n(c) a tenant whose tenancy began in the circumstances described in any of paragraphs 4, 5 or 10 of Schedule 1 to the 1985 Act and who, not less than 21 days before the end of the consultation period, has provided the applicant with a certificate from the landlord to the effect that, on the expiry of such period as is mentioned in the relevant paragraph, he has become a secure tenant.\n(2) A statutory successor to a qualifying tenant who occupied the dwelling-house on the relevant date and who, not less than 21 days before the end of the consultation period, has provided the applicant with a certificate from the landlord to the effect that he is such a successor is also prescribed for the purposes of section 100(2)(b).",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}