tenants' charter

noun

1. (in Britain) a package of legal rights to which tenants of local authorities, new towns, and housing associations are entitled, including security of tenure, and the rights to buy the dwelling cheaply, to take in lodgers, and to sublet

Example Sentences

Network Rail said the new owners, property investors Telereal Trillium and private equity group Blackstone, would adopt a "tenants first" approach, established through a tenants' charter, which would ensure the new owners engaged with tenants and local communities "in an open and honest manner".

From BBC

The prosperous times of Irish agriculture, which culminated a few years before the passing of the 'Tenants' Charter,' were followed by a serious reaction, the result of causes which, though long operative, were only then beginning to make themselves felt, and some of which, though the fact was not then generally recognised, were destined to be of no temporary character.

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