Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw1)

PART 9 E+W TERMINATION ETC. OF OCCUPATION CONTRACTS

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 9 excluded (1.12.2022) by 2004 c. 34, s. 33(c) (as inserted by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 28(2)(c))

CHAPTER 7 E+W TERMINATION OF FIXED TERM STANDARD CONTRACTS

Landlord's break clause E+W

[F1 198 Restriction on use of landlord's break clause following retaliatory possession claim E+W

(1) Subsection (2) applies where—

(a) a landlord (having given a contract-holder a notice under a landlord's break clause) has made a possession claim on the ground in section 199, and

(b) the court has refused to make an order for possession because it considered the claim to be a retaliatory claim (see section 217).

(2) The landlord may not give another notice under a landlord's break clause to the contract-holder before the end of the period of six months starting with the day on which the court refused to make an order for possession.

(3) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all fixed term standard contracts with a landlord's break clause.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 198 substituted (7.6.2021) by Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 3), ss. 9(3), 19(3)

Commencement Information

I1 S. 198 in force at 1.12.2022 by S.I. 2022/906, art. 2