{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023/section-201",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023/section-201.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/55",
  "legislation_title": "Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023",
  "path": "section/201",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "201",
  "heading": "Counter-notice",
  "text": "(1) The landlord of premises in relation to which a final letting notice has been served may give a counter-notice to the local authority that served the final letting notice.\n(2) A counter-notice must be received by the local authority before the end of the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the final letting notice takes effect.\n(3) A counter-notice must—\n(a) state that, if the final letting notice is not withdrawn, the landlord intends to appeal against it, and\n(b) specify the ground (which must be a permissible ground) on which the appeal would be brought.\n(4) The permissible grounds of appeal are set out in Part 1 of Schedule 20 (and they are to be interpreted and applied in accordance with Part 2 of that Schedule).\n(5) Regulations may amend that Schedule so as to—\n(a) add a ground of appeal;\n(b) make provision about the interpretation or application of a ground so added;\n(c) amend or remove a ground so added or provision so made.\n(6) The period referred to in section 198(3), as it applies to a particular final letting notice, is extended by 28 days if a counter-notice is served in relation to the final letting notice.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 201 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 201 in force at 2.12.2024 by S.I. 2024/1138, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/55/section/201",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:50:40.116941+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."
}