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Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016
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- Deddfau Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru
- 2016 anaw 1
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- CHAPTER 5
- Joint contract-holders
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Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016, Cross Heading: Joint contract-holders is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 12 November 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
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Changes and effects yet to be applied to Part 3 Chapter 5 Crossheading Joint-contractholders:
- specified provision(s) savings for amendments by 2018 anaw 1, s. 6, Sch. 6 by S.I. 2019/110 reg. 5
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Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):
- s. 20(3)(ma) inserted by 2019 anaw 2 Sch. 3 para. 4(2)
- s. 135(2)(ia) inserted by 2019 anaw 2 Sch. 3 para. 4(3)
- s. 186A-186C inserted by 2019 anaw 2 Sch. 3 para. 4(1)
- s. 198A inserted by 2019 anaw 2 Sch. 3 para. 5
Joint contract-holdersE+W
48Joint contract-holders: joint liability etc.E+W
(1)If there are two or more joint contract-holders under an occupation contract, each joint contract-holder is fully liable to the landlord for the performance of every obligation owed to the landlord under the contract.
(2)References in this Act to the contract-holder, except where otherwise provided, are to the joint contract-holders.
(3)Subsection (2) applies even if the occupation contract is a tenancy and the leasehold estate is vested in one or more, but not all, of the joint contract-holders.
Commencement Information
I1S. 48 in force at 1.12.2022 by S.I. 2022/906, art. 2
49Adding a joint contract-holderE+W
(1)The contract-holder under an occupation contract and another person may, with the consent of the landlord, make that person a joint contract-holder under the contract.
(2)If a person is made a joint contract-holder under this section he or she becomes entitled to all the rights and subject to all the obligations of a contract-holder under the contract from the day on which he or she becomes a joint contract-holder.
(3)This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all occupation contracts.
Commencement Information
I2S. 49 in force at 1.12.2022 by S.I. 2022/906, art. 2
50Adding a joint contract-holder: landlord's consentE+W
Where a landlord refuses consent or consents subject to conditions to adding a joint contract-holder under section 49, what is reasonable for the purposes of section 84 (landlord's consent) is to be determined having regard to Schedule 6.
Commencement Information
I3S. 50 in force at 1.12.2022 by S.I. 2022/906, art. 2
51Adding a joint contract-holder: formalitiesE+W
(1)The addition of a joint contract-holder under an occupation contract may be effected only by a document signed or executed by each of the parties to the transaction.
(2)If the contract requires the landlord's consent to the addition, the document must also be signed or executed by the landlord.
(3)But subsection (2) does not apply if the landlord is treated as having consented under section 84(6), (8) or (10).
Commencement Information
I4S. 51 in force at 1.12.2022 by S.I. 2022/906, art. 2
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