- a vesting order
means an order made by the court under section 24(4)(a) or (b) or section 25(6)(a) or (b).
- application for possession
means a landlord’s application under section 61;
- appropriate national authority
means—
- appropriate tribunal
means— (a) in relation to premises in England, the First-tier Tribunal or, where determined by or under Tribunal Procedure Rules, the Upper Tribunal;
- appurtenant property
has the same meaning as in section 1.
- arbitrator
means a member of a panel approved for the purposes of the regulations by the Secretary of State;
- associated company
means another body corporate which is (within the meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006) that body’s holding company, a subsidiary of that body or another subsidiary of that body’s holding company.
- block of flats
means a building containing two or more flats;
- business lease
means a tenancy to which Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 applies;
- Chapter I landlord
means a person who is, in relation to a claim made under Chapter I, a relevant landlord within the meaning of that Chapter;
- Chapter II landlord
means a person who is, in relation to a claim made under Chapter II, the landlord within the meaning of that Chapter or any of the other landlords (as defined by section 40(4));
- chargeable event
means— (a) any event which in accordance with any provision of Chapter II of Part II of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (exempt transfers) is a chargeable event, including any such provision as applied by section 78(3) of that Act (conditionally exempt occasions);
- charitable housing trust
means a housing trust within the meaning of the Housing Act 1985 which is a charity....
- conservation area
has the same meaning as in the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023;
- conveyance
includes assignment, transfer and surrender, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;
- diocesan board of finance
has the same meaning as “DBF” in the Church Property Measure 2018;
- diocesan glebe land
has the same meaning as in that Measure.
- disposal
means a disposal whether by the creation or the transfer of an interest, and includes the surrender of a lease and the grant of an option or right of pre-emption, and “acquisition” shall be construed accordingly (as shall expressions related to either of these expressions);
- document
means anything in which information of any description is recorded, and in relation to a document in which information is recorded otherwise than in legible form any reference to sight of the document is to sight of the information in legible form;
- dwelling
means any building or part of a building occupied or intended to be occupied as a separate dwelling;
- dwelling-house
has the same meaning as in Part 5 of the 1985 Act except that it does not include a hostel (as defined in section 622 of that Act) or any part of a hostel;
- ecclesiastical landlord
means—
- flat
means a separate set of premises (whether or not on the same floor)— (a) which forms part of a building, and (b) which is constructed or adapted for use for the purposes of a dwelling, and (c) either the whole or a material part of which lies above or below some other part of the building;
- highway
has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980;
- housing association
has the meaning given by section 1(1) of the Housing Associations Act 1985;
- incumbrances
includes—
- interest
includes estate;
- intermediate leasehold interest
means the interest of the tenant under a lease which is superior to the lease held by a qualifying tenant of a flat contained in the specified premises, to the extent that— (a) any such interest is to be acquired by the nominee purchaser by virtue of section 2(1)(a), and (b) it is an interest in the specified premises;
- introductory standard contract
has the same meaning given by section 16 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1);
- introductory tenancy
has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part V of the Housing Act 1996, • “the nominee purchaser” shall be construed in accordance with section 15;
- landlord
means immediate landlord;
- lease from the Crown
means a lease of land in which there is, or has during the subsistence of the lease been, a Crown interest superior to the lease;
- local authority
has the meaning given by section 4 of that Act;
- long lease
means a lease for a term of years certain exceeding 21 years other than a lease which is terminable before the end of that term by notice given by or to the landlord;
- management audit
means such an audit as is mentioned in section 78(1);
- management functions
includes functions with respect to the provision of services or the repair, maintenance, improvement or insurance of such property;
- mortgage
includes a charge or lien;
- operational
means not disused, and
- order for possession
means an order made under that section;
- other landlord
means any person (other than the tenant or a trustee for him) in whom there is vested a concurrent tenancy intermediate between the interest of the competent landlord and the tenant’s lease.
- other property
means property other than the demised premises.
- persons interested
includes, in particular, in relation to any application for the approval of a scheme for any area (“the scheme area”) within a conservation area—
- private street
has the same meaning as in Part XI of that Act. 10 This section does not extend to Scotland. 157B 1 Where— a an urban development corporation submits to the Secretary of State that an order under this section should be made in relation to any road in the urban development area which is a private street;
- Profit rent
means an amount equal to that of the rent payable under the lease on which the minor intermediate lease is in immediate reversion, less that of the rent payable under the minor intermediate lease.
- property
includes chattels of any description and rights and liabilities, whether arising by contract or otherwise. 4 A transfer of any house, block of flats or other property under this section shall be on such terms, including financial terms, as the Secretary of State thinks fit;
- public sector landlord
means any of the persons listed in section 171(2) of the Housing Act 1985;
- purpose-built block of flats
means a building which as constructed contained two or more flats. • “qualifying flat”, in relation to a relevant person, or an adult member of a relevant person’s family, means a flat the freehold of the whole of which is owned by the relevant person.
- qualifying maximum
means the qualifying maximum defined in section 367(5) of that Act (limit on relief for interest on certain loans);
- railway
has the same meaning as in any provision of Part 1 of the Railways Act 1993 (c. 43) for the purposes of which that term is stated to have its wider meaning.
- registered
means registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 or the Companies Act 1985;
- relevant amount
means the amount which at the relevant time was for the time being declared by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this section;
- relevant conveyance
means a conveyance of the freehold of the premises or of any premises containing or contained in the premises;
- relevant financial year
means the financial year beginning on 1st April 1991 and each successive financial year.
- relevant instrument
means an agreement made under section 165 above or an order made under section 165A above.”
- relevant interest
means any interest in, or in any part of, the specified premises or any property specified in the initial notice under section 13(3)(a)(ii).
- relevant modifications
means modifications relating to the extent of the area to which the scheme is to apply or to the provisions contained in it.
- relevant period
means—
- relevant person
has the meaning given by section 79(7);
- relevant services
means services provided by means of pipes, cables or other fixed installations.
- relevant time
means the time of the service of the landlord’s notice under section 146 (landlord’s notice admitting or denying right);
- relevant year
means any period of twelve months beginning with an anniversary of the date of such publication.”
- rent
means rent payable under the secure tenancy, but excluding any element which is expressed to be payable for services, repairs, maintenance or insurance or the landlord’s costs of management.”
- residential property
means any building or part of a building which consists of one or more dwellings let on leases, but references to residential property include—
- restrictive covenant
means a covenant or agreement restrictive of the user of any land or building.
- rights of occupation
has the same meaning as in the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983.
- secure contract
has the same meaning given by section 8 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016;
- secure tenancy
has the meaning given by section 79 of the Housing Act 1985;
- service charge
has the meaning given by section 18(1) of the 1985 Act.
- shared ownership lease
means a lease— (a) granted on payment of a premium calculated by reference to a percentage of the value of the demised premises or the cost of providing them, or (b) under which the tenant (or his personal representatives) will or may be entitled to a sum calculated by reference, directly or indirectly, to the value of those premises;
- specifies
means specifies under subsection (3)(a)(i).
- subsidiary
has the same meaning as in section 61 of the Housing Act 1996 but as if references in subsection (2) of that section and section 60 of that Act to registered social landlords and landlords were references to housing associations (within the meaning of the Housing Associations Act 1985).
- successor
has the same meaning as in section 88 of the Housing Act 1985 in relation to a secure tenancy and as in section 132 of the Housing Act 1996 in relation to an introductory tenancy..
- tenant management organisation
means a body which satisfies such conditions as may be determined by or under the regulations.”
- the 1967 Act
means the Leasehold Reform Act 1967;
- the 1985 Act
means the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985;
- the 1989 Act
means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;
- the 1993 Act
means the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993;
- the annual loan charges referable to the amount of the expense incurred
means the annual sum which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, would fall to be provided by a local housing authority for the payment of interest on, and the repayment of, a loan of that amount repayable over a period of 20 years;
- the appropriate date
means—
- the appropriate time
means, in relation to the conveyance of a freehold interest, the time when the interest is to be conveyed to the nominee purchaser.
- the Board
means the Commissioners of Inland Revenue;
- the competent landlord
means the person who, in relation to the tenant’s lease, is the landlord (as defined by subsection (1)) for the purposes of this Chapter;
- the consideration payable
means the consideration payable for the acquisition of the relevant interest;
- the constituent dwellings
means the dwellings referred to in section 76(2)(a) or (b) (as the case may be);
- the court
(unless the context otherwise requires) means, by virtue of section 90(1), the county court;
- the freeholder
means, in relation to the conveyance of a freehold interest, the person whose interest is to be conveyed;
- the improving tenant
means— a the tenant by whom the improvement mentioned in section 99A(1) was made, or b in the case of a joint tenancy at the time when the improvement was made, any of the tenants at that time.”
- the initial notice
means the notice given under section 13;
- the landlord
means the person from whom the relevant interest is being acquired;
- the new lease
has the same meaning as in that section;
- the parties
means the nominee purchaser and the reversioner and any relevant landlord who has given to those persons a notice for the purposes of paragraph 7(1)(a) of Schedule 1.
- the relevant date
has the meaning given by section 1(8);
- the relevant interest
means any such interest as is mentioned in paragraph 2(1).
- the relevant lease
means either the tenant’s existing lease or the new lease, depending on whether the valuation is for the purposes of paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (1).
- the relevant notice
means— (a) in relation to a Chapter I landlord, the notice given under section 13, and (b) in relation to a Chapter II landlord, the notice given under section 42.
- the relevant period
means the period— a beginning twelve months before the day on which the tenant claims to exercise the right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms, and b ending with the day on which the conveyance or grant is executed in pursuance of that right. 143B 1 The right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms cannot be exercised if the minimum initial payment in respect of the dwelling-house exceeds the maximum initial payment in respect of it. 2 The maximum initial payment in respect of a dwelling-house is 80 per cent. of the price which would be payable if the tenant were exercising the right to buy. 3 Where, in the case of a dwelling-house which is a house, the weekly rent at the relevant time did not exceed the relevant amount, the minimum initial payment shall be determined by the formula— where— P = the minimum initial payment;
- the relevant premises
means any such premises as are referred to in subsection (1).
- the relevant purposes of this Part
means the purposes of Chapter I or, to the extent that section 7 has effect for the purposes of Chapter II in accordance with section 39(3), the purposes of that Chapter.
- the right to collective enfranchisement
means the right specified in section 1(1);
- the tenant
means any such qualifying tenant as is referred to in subsection (2) and “the tenant’s lease” means the lease by virtue of which he is a qualifying tenant;
- the terms of acquisition
has the meaning given by section 24(8);
- the valuation date
means the date when the amount of the compensation payable to the tenant is determined as mentioned in paragraph 2(1).
- track
includes any land or other property comprising the permanent way of a railway (whether or not it is also used for other purposes) and includes any bridge, tunnel, culvert, retaining wall or other structure used for the support of, or otherwise in connection with, track,
- unit
means— (a) a flat;