This edition of the "Butterworths Residential Landlord and Tenant Handbook" incorporates major legislative developments, which have occurred since 1995, most importantly the enactment of the Housing Act 1996 and the considerable volume of subordinate legislation made there under. Other new material includes selected provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the provisions relating to transfer of tenancies in divorce proceedings contained in the Family Law Act 1996 are reproduced. The important new statutory instruments include: the Approval of Codes and Management Practice (Residential Property) (No 2) Order 1995, the Introductory Tenants (Review) Regulations 1997, the Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) Regulations 1997, the Leasehold Valuation Tribunals (Service Charges, Insurance or Appointment of Managers Applications) Order 1997 and the Long Residential Tenancies (Principal Forms) Regulations 1997. This handbook is an invaluable source of reference for those practitioners, in both the public and private sectors, who deal with such issues as leasehold enfranchisement, the right to buy (and the new right to acquire for tenants of registered social landlords), assured, secure and protected tenancies, disrepair and all other areas of residential landlord and tenant law. Other professionals working in associated fields will also find this publication indispensable, as will academics and students.