{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-and-freehold-reform-act-2024/section-1.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": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Ban on grant or assignment of certain long residential leases of houses",
  "text": "(1) A person may not grant or enter into an agreement to grant a long residential lease of a house on or after the day on which this section comes into force, unless it is a permitted lease (see section 7).\n(2) A person may not assign or enter into an agreement to assign the whole or a part of a lease which was granted on or after the day on which this section comes into force if—\n(a) at the time of the assignment the lease is a long residential lease of a house, but\n(b) at the time of the grant the lease was not a long residential lease of a house.\n(3) This section does not affect—\n(a) the validity of a lease granted, or an assignment entered into, in breach of this section, and does not affect the powers of a person to grant or assign such a lease (whether under section 23(1) of the Land Registration Act 2002 or otherwise);\n(b) any contractual rights of a party to an agreement entered into in breach of this section.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 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/section/1",
    "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."
}