{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-tenancies-and-right-to-acquire-exclusion-regulations-2012/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-tenancies-and-right-to-acquire-exclusion-regulations-2012/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exclusion of certain assured ... tenancies from the Right to Acquire",
  "text": "The following are not tenancies within section 180(2) of the 2008 Act—\n(a) an assured shorthold tenancy for a fixed term of less than two years,\n(b) a periodic assured shorthold tenancy, or\n(c) an assured shorthold tenancy , or a private assured tenancy, where the rent payable under the tenancy is—\n(i) Intermediate Rent, or\n(ii) Mortgage Rescue rent\n(and accordingly, the right to acquire referred to in that section does not apply in relation to such tenancies).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(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(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4 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(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4 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(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}