{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-reform-housing-and-urban-development-act-1993/section-38",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/28",
  "legislation_title": "Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-reform-housing-and-urban-development-act-1993",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Chapter I.",
  "text": "(1) In this Chapter (unless the context otherwise requires)—\n“appropriate tribunal” means—\n(a)in relation to premises in England, the First-tier Tribunal or, where determined by or under Tribunal Procedure Rules, the Upper Tribunal; and\n(b)in relation to premises in Wales, a leasehold valuation tribunal.\n“conveyance” includes assignment, transfer and surrender, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“the initial notice” means the notice given under section 13;\n“introductory standard contract” has the same meaning given by section 16 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1);\n“introductory tenancy” has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part V of the Housing Act 1996,\n“the nominee purchaser” shall be construed in accordance with section 15;\n“the participating tenants” shall be construed in accordance with section 14;\n“premises with a resident landlord” shall be construed in accordance with section 10;\n“public sector landlord” means any of the persons listed in section 171(2) of the Housing Act 1985;\n“qualifying tenant” shall be construed in accordance with section 5;\n“the relevant date” has the meaning given by section 1(8);\n“relevant landlord” and “the reversioner” shall be construed in accordance with section 9;\n“the right to collective enfranchisement” means the right specified in section 1(1);\n“secure contract” has the same meaning given by section 8 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016;\n“secure tenancy” has the meaning given by section 79 of the Housing Act 1985;\n“the specified premises” shall be construed in accordance with section 13(12);\n“the terms of acquisition” has the meaning given by section 24(8);\n“unit” means—\n(a)a flat;\n(b)any other separate set of premises which is constructed or adapted for use for the purposes of a dwelling; or\n(c)a separate set of premises let, or intended for letting, on a business lease.\n(2) Any reference in this Chapter (however expressed) to the acquisition or proposed acquisition by the nominee purchaser is a reference to the acquisition or proposed acquisition by the nominee purchaser, on behalf of the participating tenants, of such freehold and other interests as fall to be so acquired under a contract entered into in pursuance of the initial notice.\n(3) Any reference in this Chapter to the interest of a relevant landlord in the specified premises is a reference to the interest in those premises by virtue of which he is, in accordance with section 9(2)(b) or (2A)(b), a relevant landlord.\n(4) Any reference in this Chapter to agreement in relation to all or any of the terms of acquisition is a reference to agreement subject to contract.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 38 inserted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 105 (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 38(1) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 22(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Definition in s. 38(1) inserted (12.2.1997) by S.I. 1997/74, art. 2, Sch. para. 9(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 38(3) inserted (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 52, s. 107, Sch. 10 para. 13; S.I. 1996/2212, art. 2(2) (with savings in Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1985 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/15",
      "affecting_title": "Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/15",
      "affecting_title": "Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/15",
      "affecting_title": "Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/15",
      "affecting_title": "Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/15",
      "affecting_title": "Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2024/22",
      "affecting_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/28/section/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:01.928287+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."
}