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

Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976

8.—(1) The Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 4(2) (statutory tenants and tenancies)—

(a) at the end of subsection (4), insert “or, in the case of a dwelling-house in Wales, will be entitled to a secure contract of the dwelling-house by succession”;

(b) after subsection (6), insert—

“(7) In this section, “secure contract” has the same meaning as in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1) (see section 8 of that Act).”

(3) In section 33(3) (suspension of condition attached to planning permission)—

(a) in subsection (2), after “a tenancy to which subsection (3) below applies”, insert “, or an occupation contract to which subsection (3A) below applies”;

(b) after subsection (3), insert—

“(3A) This subsection applies to an occupation contract which immediately before the appointed day was an assured agricultural occupancy, within the meaning of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50).”;

(c) after subsection (5), insert—

“(6) In this section, the following terms have the same meaning as in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1)—

“appointed day” (see section 242 of that Act);

“occupation contract” (see section 7 of that Act).”

(1)

1976 c. 80.

(2)

Section 4 was amended by section 76(3) of the Housing Act 1980 (c. 51), sections 39 and 140 of and Part 2 of Schedule 4 and Schedule 18 to the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50), section 81 of and paragraph 10 of Schedule 8 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), section 155 of and paragraph 72 of Schedule 23 to the Rent Act 1977 (c. 42), and regulation 41(a) of and paragraph 4 of Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458).

(3)

Section 33 was amended by section 194(1) of and paragraph 49 of Schedule 11 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), section 55 of and paragraph 77 of Schedule 23 to the Rent Act 1977 (c. 42) and section 32 of and paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34).