154 Flexible tenancies
Localism Act 2011 (2011 c 20) | Legislation

Flexible tenancies

154  Flexible tenancies

After section 106A of the Housing Act 1985 insert—

“Flexible tenancies
107A Flexible tenancies

(1)     For the purposes of this Act, a flexible tenancy is a secure tenancy to which any of the following subsections applies.

(2)     This subsection applies to a secure tenancy if—

(a)     it is granted by a landlord in England for a term certain of not less than two years, and

(b)     before it was granted the person who became the landlord under the tenancy served a written notice on the person who became the tenant under the tenancy stating that the tenancy would be a flexible tenancy.

(3)     This subsection applies to a secure tenancy if—

(a)     it becomes a secure tenancy by virtue of a notice under paragraph 4ZA(2) of Schedule 1 (family intervention tenancies becoming secure tenancies),

(b)     the landlord under the family intervention tenancy in question was a local housing authority in England,

(c)     the family intervention tenancy was granted to a person on the coming to an end of a flexible tenancy under which the person was a tenant,

(d)     the notice states that the tenancy is to become a secure tenancy that

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