{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-replacement-of-terminated-tenancies-successor-landlords-england-order-2009/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-replacement-of-terminated-tenancies-successor-landlords-england-order-2009/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1262",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Replacement of Terminated Tenancies) (Successor Landlords) (England) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-replacement-of-terminated-tenancies-successor-landlords-england-order-2009",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "Sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 26 (supplementary) applies as if—\n(a) after the definition of “ex-tenant” there were inserted—\n““initial transferee” means the person to whom the relevant interest was transferred by the ex-landlord after the end of the original tenancy and before the commencement date,”;\n(b) after the definition of “possession order” there were inserted—\n““registered social landlord” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Housing Act 1996,\n“relevant interest” means the interest of the ex-landlord in the dwelling-house which was let under an original tenancy,”;\n(c) after the definition of “secure tenancy” there were inserted—\n““subsequent transferee” means any person to whom, before the commencement date, the relevant interest was transferred after the transfer from the ex-landlord to the initial transferee,”;\n(d) in the definition of “successor”—\n(i) after ““successor”” there were inserted “, except in the expression “successor landlord””;\n(ii) for “a new tenancy which is”, in each place where those words occur, there were substituted “an original tenancy which was, or a new tenancy which is,”; and\n(iii) in paragraph (a), for “or which is a demoted tenancy” there were substituted “, or in relation to an original tenancy which was, or a new tenancy which is, a demoted tenancy”; and\n(e) after the definition of “successor” there were inserted—\n““successor landlord” means the initial transferee, or, as the case may be, a subsequent transferee, to whom the relevant interest belongs on the commencement date,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1262/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:11:57.666607+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."
}