{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-tenancies-and-right-to-acquire-exclusion-regulations-2012/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-tenancies-and-right-to-acquire-exclusion-regulations-2012/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/696",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Tenancies and Right to Acquire (Exclusion) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-tenancies-and-right-to-acquire-exclusion-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1985 Act” means the Housing Act 1985;\n“the 2008 Act” means the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008;\n“the 2011 Act” means the Localism Act 2011;\n“Affordable Rent” means the rent payable in respect of a fixed term assured shorthold tenancy with a minimum two year term where the rent—\n(a)...\n(b)is regulated under a rent standard which requires the initial rent to be set at no more than 80% of local market rent (including service charges);\n“dwelling” has the meaning given in section 275 of the 2008 Act;\n“funding condition” means a condition imposed by the Homes and Communities Agency or, in London, the Greater London Authority, when giving a grant to a private registered provider for the provision of social housing;\n“Intermediate Rent” means the rent payable in respect of a periodic or fixed term assured shorthold tenancy , or a private assured tenancy, where the rent—\n(a) is not regulated under a rent standard, but\n(b)is subject to a funding condition which requires it to be no more than 80% of local market rent;\n“Mortgage Rescue Rent” means the rent payable in respect of an assured shorthold tenancy of a dwelling let on a fixed term of three years , or a private assured tenancy, where—\n(a)the freehold or superior leasehold of the dwelling was purchased by a private registered provider ... due to mortgage arrears; and\n(b)the rent ... is subject to a funding condition which requires it to be no more than 80% of local market rent;\n...\n“private assured tenancy” means an assured tenancy which is not a social housing assured tenancy within the meaning given by section 145(8) of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025;\n“private registered provider” and “social housing” have the same meanings as in the 2008 Act;\n“rent standard” means a standard controlling rents set by the Regulator of Social Housing under section 194(2A) of the 2008 Act;\n“shared ownership rent” means the rent payable in respect of a lease of the kind referred to in section 70(4) of the 2008 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(1) becomes an unnumbered paragraph (1.5.2026) by The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) and Tenancies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/325), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (1.5.2026) by virtue of The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) and Tenancies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/325), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.5.2026) by The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) and Tenancies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/325), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.5.2026) by The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) and Tenancies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/325), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.5.2026) by The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) and Tenancies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/325), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.5.2026) by The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) and Tenancies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/325), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (1.5.2026) by virtue of The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) and Tenancies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/325), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (1.5.2026) by virtue of The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) and Tenancies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/325), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(d)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (1.5.2026) by virtue of The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) and Tenancies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/325), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.5.2026) by The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) and Tenancies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/325), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.5.2026) by The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) and Tenancies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/325), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.4.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See sections 80(3) and 68-70 of that Act respectively."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/696/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:38:09.189331+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."
}