{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1988/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1988/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/26",
  "legislation_title": "Landlord and Tenant Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-act-1988",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Duty to pass on applications.",
  "text": "(1) If, in a case where section 1 of this Act applies, any person receives a written application by the tenant for consent to a proposed transaction and that person—\n(a) is a person who may consent to the transaction or (though not such a person) is the landlord, and\n(b) believes that another person, other than a person who he believes has received the application or a copy of it, is a person who may consent to the transaction,\nhe owes a duty to the tenant (whether or not he owes him any duty under section 1 of this Act) to take such steps as are reasonable to secure the receipt within a reasonable time by the other person of a copy of the application.\n(2) The reference in section 1(3) of this Act to the service of an application on a person who may consent to a proposed transaction includes a reference to the receipt by him of an application or a copy of an application (whether it is for his consent or that of another).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/26/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:48:01.968606+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."
}