The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022

County Courts Act 1984

10.—(1) The County Courts Act 1984(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 60A(2) (rights of audience etc of employees of housing management bodies)—

(a) in subsection (3)—

(i) after paragraph (a), insert—

“(aa) proceedings under section 116 (order imposing periodic standard contract because of prohibited conduct) of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1);”;

(ii) in paragraph (b), for “that Act”, substitute “the Housing Act 1985”;

(iii) after paragraph (b), insert—

“(bb) proceedings for possession of a dwelling-house subject to a secure contract under section 157(1) (breach of contract) of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 on the ground that the contract-holder has breached the contract under section 55 (anti-social behaviour and other prohibited conduct) of that Act;”;

(iv) after paragraph (c), insert—

“(cc) proceedings under section 178(1) (recovery of possession) of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 in relation to a prohibited standard contract;”;

(b) in subsection (7), at the appropriate places in alphabetical order, insert—

““prohibited conduct standard contract” has the same meaning as in section 116 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016;”;

““secure contract” has the same meaning as in section 8 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016;”.

(3) In section 77(3) (appeals: general provisions), in subsection (6), after paragraph (ef), insert—

“(eg) section 209 (breach of contract ground) of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1); or

(eh) section 210 (estate management grounds) of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016; or”.

(1)

1984 c. 28.

(2)

Section 60A was inserted by Part 8 of and section 191 of the Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29).

(3)

Section 77 was amended by article 10 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Destination of Appeals) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/917), paragraph 10 of Schedule 9(1) to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (c. 12), section 125(2) of and paragraph 15 of Schedule 17 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), section 4 of and paragraph 57(3) of Schedule 2 to the Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 71), section 140 of and paragraph 35(2) of Schedule 17 to the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50) and section 194(1) of and 195(2) of and paragraph 60 of Schedule 11 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).