{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-249",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-249.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2016/1",
  "legislation_title": "Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "section/249",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "249",
  "heading": "Lease, tenancy and related expressions",
  "text": "(1) In this Act “lease” and “tenancy” have the same meaning.\n(2) Both expressions include—\n(a) a sub-lease or a sub-tenancy, and\n(b) a lease or tenancy (or a sub-lease or sub-tenancy) in equity.\n(3) The expressions “lessor” and “lessee” and “landlord” and “tenant”, and references to letting, to the grant or making of a lease or to covenants or terms, are to be read accordingly.\n(4) “Tenancy” and “licence” mean a tenancy or licence relating to a dwelling (see section 246).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/1/section/249",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:17.774658+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."
}