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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-change-of-landlord-regulations-1989/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-change-of-landlord-regulations-1989/schedule-4/paragraph-1.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": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule –\n“the 1925 Act” means the Law of Property Act 1925;\n“grant” means the grant of an estate in fee simple absolute in accordance with section 104(1)(a) by the public sector landlord to the applicant;\n“lease” means the grant of a lease in accordance with section 104(1)(b) by the applicant to the public sector landlord;\n“grantor” means the person or body who makes the grant or grants the lease; and\n“grantee” means the person or body to whom the grant is made or the lease granted;\n“public sector landlord” means the landlord as defined in these Regulations;\n“relevant secure tenancy” means the secure tenancy of the flat in question in favour of the tenant who immediately prior to completion of the grant had a secure tenancy of that flat;\n“right to buy lease” means a lease granted by the public sector landlord under Part V of the 1985 Act;\n“tenancy subsisting at the time of acquisition” includes a relevant secure tenancy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1925 c. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/367/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}