{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/39",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Local Government and Housing Act 1989",
  "text": "In Schedule 10 (security of tenure on ending of long residential tenancies)—\n(a) in paragraph 5(1)(a), omit “, other than Ground 16”;\n(b) for paragraph 5(2) substitute—\n“(2) Ground 6 in Schedule 2 to the 1988 Act may not be specified in a landlord’s notice to resume possession if the tenancy is a former 1954 Act tenancy.\n(2A) Where that Ground applies to any other long residential tenancy in accordance with sub-paragraph (1), it is to apply as if—\n(a) in paragraph (b) of that Ground, the words “, but only in a case where section 7(5ZA) applies in relation to the tenancy,” were omitted;\n(b) in the general redevelopment conditions, paragraph (f) was omitted.”;\n(c) in paragraph 6(3)(c)—\n(i) omit “(other than an assured shorthold tenancy)”;\n(ii) for “5” substitute “5H”;\n(d) in paragraph 11(3)—\n(i) in the opening words, omit “(not being an assured shorthold tenancy)”;\n(ii) in paragraph (c), for “5” substitute “5H”;\n(e) in paragraph 11(5)—\n(i) in the opening words, omit “(not being an assured shorthold tenancy)”;\n(ii) in paragraph (c), for “5” substitute “5H”;\n(f) in paragraph 12(1), omit “or Chapter II”;\n(g) in paragraph 13(4), for “15” substitute “18”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 39 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(1)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 39 in force at 1.5.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2026/421, reg. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/schedule/2/paragraph/39",
    "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."
}