{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977/section-136",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977/section-136.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/42",
  "legislation_title": "Rent Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-act-1977",
  "path": "section/136",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "136",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part X.",
  "text": "In this Part of this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—\n(a) “mortgagee” and “mortgagor” include any person from time to time deriving title under the original mortgagee or mortgagor; and\n(b) “legal mortgage” in relation to regulated mortgages, includes any registered charge (within the meaning of the Land Registration Act 2002).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), Sch. 25 Pt. I para. 50"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 136(b) substituted (13.10.2003) by Land Registration Act 2002 (c. 9), s. 136(2), Sch. 11 para. 14 (with s. 129); S.I. 2003/1725, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/42/section/136",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:24:12.956086+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."
}