{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-tenancies-and-right-to-acquire-exclusion-regulations-2012/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-tenancies-and-right-to-acquire-exclusion-regulations-2012/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exclusion of certain assured ... tenancies from transfer of tenancy provisions",
  "text": "Section 158 of the 2011 Act does not apply in relation to—\n(a) an assured shorthold tenancy for a fixed term of less than two years,\n(b) a periodic assured shorthold tenancy,\n(c) an assured shorthold tenancy , or a private assured tenancy, where the rent payable under the tenancy is—\n(i) Affordable Rent;\n(ii) Intermediate Rent;\n(iii) Mortgage Rescue rent; or\n(iv) shared ownership rent\n(and accordingly, the transfer of tenancy provisions in that section do not apply in relation to such tenancies).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(c) 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(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 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(4)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3 heading 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(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.4.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/696/regulation/3",
    "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."
}