{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Saving provision relating to regulation 2: new possession Ground 1A and legacy assured tenancies",
  "text": "(1) The amendment made to Schedule 2 to the 1988 Act (grounds for possession of dwelling-houses let on assured tenancies) by paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the 2025 Act (new ground for sale of dwelling-house) does not apply in relation to a legacy assured tenancy.\n(2) In this regulation, “legacy assured tenancy” means an assured tenancy which—\n(a) is entered into before 1st May 2026, and\n(b) is, immediately before 1st May 2026, not an assured shorthold tenancy within the meaning of Part 1 of the 1988 Act as it had effect at that time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988 is amended by Schedule 1 to the Renters’ Rights Act 2025; there are other amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1988 (assured shorthold tenancies) is repealed by section 2(b) of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/421/regulation/5",
    "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."
}