Part 7: Miscellaneous and general Section 79: Grant of secure tenancies in cases of domestic abuse
This section amends the 1985 Act to require local authorities, when re-housing a person, or offering a person a new sole tenancy in the same home, where that person has or had a "lifetime tenancy" of social housing (whether under a secure tenancy other than a flexible tenancy or under an assured tenancy, granted by a private registered provider of social housing, by the Regulator of Social Housing or by a housing trust which is a charity, other than an assured shorthold tenancy), to grant such a person a new lifetime secure tenancy if the person, or a member of their household, is or has been a victim of domestic abuse (as defined by new section 81ZA(4) of the 1985 Act) carried out by another person, and the new tenancy is being granted for reasons connected with that abuse.
	This section will have effect until Schedule 7 to the 2016 Act and the 2018 Act are brought into force, after which the equivalent provisions will be those contained in the 2018 Act (see paragraphs 62 to 66 above).