{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/22",
  "legislation_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Retirement housing leases",
  "text": "(1) A lease that—\n(a) is a retirement housing lease, and\n(b) meets any further conditions which may be specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State.\n(2) A lease is a retirement housing lease if—\n(a) it is a term of the lease that the house comprised in the lease may be occupied only by persons who have attained a minimum age,\n(b) that minimum age is not less than 55, and\n(c) the house comprised in the lease is part of a retirement development or scheme in which the leases of all the houses in that development or scheme meet the requirements set out in paragraphs (a) and (b).\n(3) A statutory instrument containing regulations made under sub-paragraph (1)(b) is subject to the negative procedure.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 124(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/22/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:34:48.566347+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."
}