1 Assured tenancies
Housing Act 1988 (1988 c 50) | Legislation

Part I Rented Accommodation

Chapter I
Assured Tenancies

Meaning of assured tenancy etc

1  Assured tenancies

(1)     A tenancy under which a dwelling-house [in England] is let as a separate dwelling is for the purposes of this Act an assured tenancy if and so long as—

(a)     the tenant or, as the case may be, each of the joint tenants is an individual; and

(b)     the tenant or, as the case may be, at least one of the joint tenants occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home; and

(c)     the tenancy is not one which, by virtue of subsection (2) or subsection (6) below, cannot be an assured tenancy.

[(1A)     Subsection

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