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1. Domestic premises in England and Wales are “social housing” if the premises are let below the market rate and—
(a)the relevant interest in those premises is registered as belonging to a social landlord; or
(b)if no relevant interest in the premises has been registered, the premises are let by a social landlord other than under a lease granted pursuant to Part 5 of the Housing Act 1985(1).
1985 c. 68. Part 5 was amended by section 83 of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50), sections 104, 105, 108 to 120 of, and Schedules 21 and 22 to, the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28), Schedules 16 and 18 to the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), Schedule 5 to the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (c. 15), sections 180 to 190, 192, 193 of, and Schedule 16 to, the Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), Schedules 11 and 13 to the Land Registration Act 2002 (c. 9), Schedules 19 and 22 to the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), section 100 of, and Schedule 11 to, the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), the Abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Rights (Wales) Act 2018 (anaw 1), S.I. 1996/2325, 2010/866 and 2019/110. There are other amendments which are not relevant.
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