{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secure-tenancies-notices-amendment-england-regulations-2004/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secure-tenancies-notices-amendment-england-regulations-2004/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1627",
  "legislation_title": "The Secure Tenancies (Notices) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secure-tenancies-notices-amendment-england-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment: notice to be served before proceedings for a demotion order",
  "text": "(1) The Secure Tenancies (Notices) Regulations 1987 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) After regulation 2, add—\n“3 The notice to be served on a secure tenant under section 83 of the Housing Act 1985 before the court can entertain proceedings for a demotion order under section 82A of that Act, shall be in the form specified in Part III of the Schedule to these Regulations, or in a form substantially to the same effect.”\n(3) In the Schedule, after Part II add—\n“Part III\nNotice before proceedings for a demotion order\nHousing Act 1985, s83\nThis Notice is the first step towards the termination of your secure tenancy and its replacement with a demoted tenancy. You should read it very carefully.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "SI 1987/755 as amended by SI 1997/71 and SI 1997/377."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 82A was inserted by section 14(2) of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 (c. 38)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1627/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:23:47.938071+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."
}