{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024/schedule-4/paragraph-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024/schedule-4/paragraph-31.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/4/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Freehold enfranchisements: the “eligible persons” and “qualifying transactions”",
  "text": "(1) A person is an “eligible person” if the whole or a part of a relevant interest of the person is acquired on a freehold enfranchisement.\n(2) The eligible person’s “qualifying transaction” is the acquisition of the whole or the part of the person’s relevant interest.\n(3) But if—\n(a) an eligible person’s relevant interest is a freehold, and\n(b) that person is granted a lease in accordance with section 36 of the LRHUDA 1993,\nthat person’s qualifying transaction is the acquisition of the freehold together with the grant of that lease.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 31 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/4/paragraph/31",
    "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."
}