{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024/schedule-9/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024/schedule-9/paragraph-8.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/9/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Local Government and Housing Act 1989",
  "text": "In paragraph 5 of Schedule 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (security of tenure for long residential leases)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (4), for the words from “unless” to the end substitute\n“unless—\n(a) the landlord is a relevant authority, and\n(b) the premises are required for relevant development.”;\n(b) after sub-paragraph (4) insert—\n“(4A) For those purposes—\n(a) “relevant authority” means a person referred to in any paragraph of section 38(2) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967;\n(b) “relevant development”—\n(i) in relation to a relevant authority other than a health authority, means development for the purposes (other than investment purposes) of that body;\n(ii) in relation to a relevant authority that is a health authority, means development for the purposes of the National Health Service Act 2006 or the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;\n(iii) in relation to a relevant authority that is a university body, also includes development for the purposes of any related university body;\n(iv) in relation to a relevant authority that is a local authority, also includes area development;\n(c) “health authority” means—\n(i) NHS England;\n(ii) any integrated care board;\n(iii) any Local Health Board;\n(iv) any Special Health Authority;\n(v) any National Health Service trust;\n(vi) any NHS foundation trust;\n(vii) any clinical commissioning group;\n(viii) any Strategic Health Authority;\n(ix) any Primary Care Trust;\n(d) “university body” and “related university body” have the same meaning as in section 29(6ZA) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967;\n(e) “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 29(5) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967;\n(f) “area development” means any development to be undertaken, whether or not by a local authority, in order to secure—\n(i) the development or redevelopment of an area defined by a development plan under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 as an area of comprehensive development;\n(ii) the treatment as a whole, by development, redevelopment or improvement, or partly by one and partly by another method, of any area in which the premises are situated.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 8 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/9/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}