{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "New ground for sale of dwelling-house",
  "text": "After Ground 1 insert—\n“Ground 1A\nThe following conditions are met—\n(a) the landlord who is seeking possession intends to sell a freehold or leasehold interest in the dwelling-house or to grant a lease of the dwelling-house for a term certain of more than 21 years which is not terminable before the end of that term by notice given by or to the landlord;\n(b) the assured tenancy on which the dwelling-house is let did not come into being by virtue of any provision of Schedule 1 to the Rent Act 1977 or section 4 of the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976;\n(c) either—\n(i) the current tenancy began at least 1 year before the relevant date, or\n(ii) at the relevant date, notice of a compulsory acquisition in relation to the dwelling-house has been given, the landlord intends to sell their interest in the dwelling-house to the acquiring authority and the acquiring authority intends to acquire it;\n(d) the landlord seeking possession is not—\n(i) a non-profit registered provider of social housing,\n(ii) a body registered as a social landlord in the register maintained under section 1 of the Housing Act 1996,\n(iii) a body registered as a social landlord in the register kept under section 20(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010,\n(iv) a housing trust, within the meaning of the Housing Associations Act 1985, which is a charity, or\n(v) where the dwelling-house is social housing within the meaning of Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, a profit-making registered provider of social housing.\nIn paragraph (c)(ii), “sell” includes transfer.\nWhen calculating whether the current tenancy began at least 1 year before the relevant date, both—\n(a) the day when the current tenancy began, and\n(b) the relevant date,\nmust be included in the calculation.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(1)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 in force at 1.5.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2026/421, reg. 2(b) (with reg. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:43.804012+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."
}