{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/421",
  "legislation_title": "The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Housing Act 1988;\n“the 2025 Act” means the Renters’ Rights Act 2025;\n“assured tenancy” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the 1988 Act;\n“existing tenancy” has the meaning given by section 146(3) of the 2025 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 50. Relevant amendments are made by Parts 3 and 5 of the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52), section 16 of the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 (c. 38), sections 81 and 82 of, and Schedules 8 and 9 to, the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), section 299 of, and Schedule 11 to, the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), Part 7 of the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), section 6 of the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013 (c. 3), Part 5 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), sections 40 and 41 of the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19), Part 1 of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (c. 26), S.I. 2003/259, S.I. 2010/866, S.I. 2013/1036 and S.I. 2019/1458."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/421/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:02:37.067518+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."
}