{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/section-146",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/section-146.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "section/146",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "146",
  "heading": "Existing assured tenancies to continue as section 4A assured tenancies",
  "text": "(1) The commencement of Chapter 1 of Part 1 (which, in particular, has the effect that, on the commencement date, an existing tenancy becomes a section 4A assured tenancy) does not affect the continuation of an existing tenancy on and after the commencement date (as a section 4A assured tenancy that is subject to the other provisions of that Chapter).\n(2) Schedule 6 contains transitional provision.\n(3) In this section—\n“commencement date” means the day on which Chapter 1 of Part 1 comes into force in accordance with section 145 (and accordingly where different days are appointed for different purposes in relation to that Chapter, a reference in this Act to the commencement date is a reference to the day on which that Chapter comes into force for the purposes of the tenancy to which the reference relates);\n“existing tenancy” means an assured tenancy which is entered into before the commencement date;\n“section 4A assured tenancy” means an assured tenancy to which section 4A of the 1988 Act (as inserted by section 1 of this Act) applies.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 146 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/section/146",
    "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."
}