{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1985/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1985/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/70",
  "legislation_title": "Landlord and Tenant Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1985",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Meaning of “landlord”, “tenant” etc.",
  "text": "In the provisions of this Act relating to service charges—\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“landlord” includes any person who has a right to enforce payment of a service charge;\n“services” includes, in relation to a dwelling in a higher-risk building (as defined by section 30I), building safety measures within the meaning of section 30D;\n“tenant” includes\n(a) a statutory tenant, and\n(b) where the dwelling or part of it is sub-let, the sub-tenant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definition of “flat” repealed by Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (c. 31, SIF 75:1), ss. 41, 61(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(a), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 30 inserted (28.4.2022 for specified purposes, 6.4.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), ss. 112(5)(a), 170(2) (with s. 164); S.I. 2023/362, reg. 3(1)(z10)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word substituted by Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (c. 31, SIF 75:1), s. 41, Sch. 2 para. 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 30 heading substituted (28.4.2022 for specified purposes, 6.4.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), ss. 112(5)(b), 170(2) (with s. 164); S.I. 2023/362, reg. 3(1)(z10)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 30 amended by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 57(7), Sch. 13 para. 24 (as substituted by Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 71, SIF 61), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 61) and Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 79(12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 18-30 modified (1.4.1995) by S.I. 1995/401, art. 18, Sch. para. 10(b)Ss. 18-30 extended (5.7.1994) by 1994 c. 19, ss. 39, 66(2)(b), Sch. 13 para. 23(b) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 18-30 modified (30.9.2003 for E. and 30.3.2004 for W.) by 2002 c. 15, ss. 102, 181(1), Sch. 7 para. 4; S.I. 2003/1986, art. 2(a); S.I. 2004/669, art. 2(a)Ss. 18-30B extended (30.9.2003 and 28.2.2005 for E. for certain purposes and otherwise prosp. and 30.3.2004 and 31.5.2005 for W. for certain purposes and otherwise prosp.) by 2002 c. 15, ss. 172, 181(1); S.I. 2003/1986, art. 2(c)(ii) (subject to Sch. 2); S.I. 2004/669, art. 2(c)(ii) (subject to Sch. 2); S.I. 2004/3056, art. 3(h) (subject to art. 4 (as amended by S.I. 2005/193, art. 2)); S.I. 2005/1353, art. 2(h) (subject to art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/5",
      "affecting_title": "Building Safety (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/70/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:43.672369+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."
}