Supplementary A - London Borough of Hillingdon

1. DEFINITIONS
Certain words in this Agreement have a specific meaning because this is a legal
document. The words used may have a different, more general or more limited meaning
than you would normally expect.
Premises, property or
home
1.1 The dwelling let to you, including any garden,
integral garage, carport, hard standing, shed,
outbuilding, fence or wall.
We, us or the Council 1.2 The London Borough of Hillingdon or any agent or
contractor appointed to help carry out the
management and maintenance of the Council’s
housing stock.
You or Tenant 1.3 The legal or equitable tenant of the property. If
you are a joint legal or equitable tenant, then the
words ‘you’ or ‘tenant’ refer to you jointly and
individually.
Assignment
or to assign (secure
tenants only)
1.4 This is the legal process of passing all your
tenancy rights and responsibilities over to another
person.
Care Leaver 1.5 If you are a Care Leaver and a Relevant Child
within the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000, we
have a duty to maintain you in suitable
accommodation.
Contractual tenants 1.6 If at any time you lose your security of tenure (see
below para.1.24), you will lose many of the rights
and benefits currently attached to your tenancy
and you will no longer be a secure tenant but will
become a contractual tenant.
Contractual tenants have little or no rights
regarding the property and their tenancy can be
ended by service of Notice to Quit.
Demoted tenancy 1.7 The demoted tenancy was introduced by the Anti
Social Behaviour Act 2003 to enable us and other
organisations to deal effectively with anti social
behaviour.
Only a court may demote a tenancy and we may
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