{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-34.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/34",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part of this Schedule—\n“affected dwelling-house” has the meaning given in paragraph 19(6);\n“assured shorthold tenancy” is to be read in accordance with Part 1 of the 1988 Act as it had effect immediately before the commencement date;\n“assured tenancy”, in relation to a time before the commencement date, is to be read in accordance with Part 1 of the 1988 Act as it had effect at that time;\n“the commencement date” has the meaning given by section 146(3);\n“contract of insurance” has the meaning given by article 3(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001;\n“dwelling-house” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the 1988 Act — see section 45 of that Act);\n“mortgage arrangement which relates to residential premises” or “mortgage arrangement” means an arrangement under which—\n(a) credit is or continues to be provided to a person, and\n(b) the obligation of the person to repay is secured by a legal or equitable mortgage or other charge on the residential premises;\n“pre-application section 106 obligation” means a section 106 obligation that was entered into before the commencement date;\n“relevant assured tenancy” has the meaning given in paragraph 19(7) and (8);\n“relevant pre-application instrument” has the meaning given in paragraph 19(2) to (5);\n“residential premises” has the meaning given in paragraph 19(1);\n“section 106 obligation” means a planning obligation under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;\n“superseded tenancy” means—\n(a) an assured shorthold tenancy, and\n(b) an assured tenancy (other than an assured shorthold tenancy) that is not a relevant assured tenancy.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 34 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/schedule/6/paragraph/34",
    "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."
}