Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw1)

PART 5 E+W PROVISIONS APPLYING ONLY TO SECURE CONTRACTS

Yn ddilys o 01/12/2022

CHAPTER 6 E+W PROVISIONS APPLYING ONLY TO SECURE CONTRACTS WITH COMMUNITY LANDLORDS

118 Transfer to another secure contract-holder E+W

(1) The contract-holder under a secure contract under which the landlord is a community landlord may transfer the contract as described in this section, but only if the landlord consents.

(2) The contract-holder may transfer the contract to a person who—

(a) before the transfer is a contract-holder under a secure contract under which the landlord is a community landlord, and

(b) immediately before the transfer will cease to be the contract-holder under the contract mentioned in paragraph (a).

(3) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all secure contracts under which the landlord is a community landlord.

119 Transfer to another secure contract-holder: landlord's consent E+W

Where a landlord refuses consent or consents subject to conditions to a transfer described in section 118, what is reasonable for the purposes of section 84 (landlord's consent) is to be determined having regard to Schedule 6.