{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenant-fees-act-2019/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenant-fees-act-2019/section-32.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2019/4",
  "legislation_title": "Tenant Fees Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenant-fees-act-2019",
  "path": "section/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Crown application",
  "text": "(1) Sections 1 to 11, 15 to 17 and 30, Schedules 1 to 3 and any regulations made under section 3 or 9 bind the Crown in respect of a Crown tenancy.\nThis is subject to subsection (2).\n(2) In subsection (3) of section 8 as it applies by virtue of subsection (1), the reference to a person having committed an offence under section 12 is to be read as a reference to a person satisfying the conditions in subsection (1)(a) to (c) of that section.\n(3) In this section—\n(a) “Crown tenancy” means a tenancy of housing in England in which the interest of the landlord is a Crown interest;\n(b) “Crown interest” means a Crown interest within the meaning of section 44(3) of the Housing Act 1988 which is capable of granting an assured shorthold tenancy assured tenancy under that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 32(3)(b) substituted (1.5.2026 for specified purposes) by Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (c. 26), ss. 27(4), 145(1)(8) (with ss. 138, 146(1), Sch. 6 paras. 1, 3, 4, 12, 16, 17); S.I. 2026/421, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.6.2019 by S.I. 2019/857, reg. 3(y)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/4/section/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:24.931982+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."
}