{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-transfer-from-a-local-authority-landlord-england-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-transfer-from-a-local-authority-landlord-england-regulations-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2898",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Right to Transfer from a Local Authority Landlord) (England) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-transfer-from-a-local-authority-landlord-england-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“authority” means the local housing authority on which a proposal notice is served;\n“house” includes—\n(a) part of a house;\n(b) land let together with a house; and\n(c) land held for a purpose related to a house;\n“interested parties” means—\n(a) any organisation which has entered into a management agreement with the authority under section 27 of the Housing Act 1985 which relates to the houses specified in a proposal notice; and\n(b) in a case in which the houses specified in the proposal notice are not located in the area of the authority, the local authority in whose area the houses are located;\n“introductory tenant” means a tenant with an introductory tenancy granted under section 124 of the Housing Act 1996;\n“PRP” means a private registered provider of social housing;\n“tenant” means a person who holds a secure tenancy (within the meaning of section 79 of the Housing Act 1985), or other tenancy of a house from an authority; and\n“tenant group” means a group of persons which meets the conditions contained in regulation 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“House” is defined for the purposes of Part 2 of the Housing Act 1985 in section 56 of that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 27 was substituted by the Regulatory Reform (Housing Management Agreements) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/940)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1996 c.52. Section 124 was amended by Schedule 2 to the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See section 34A(9) of the Housing Act 1985. Section 34A(9) was amended by the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Registration of Local Authorities) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/844)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2898/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:34:50.837614+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."
}