The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Residential Tenancies: Protection from Eviction) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Consequential modifications to prescribed forms relating to secure tenancies

13.—(1) Paragraph 10 of Schedule 29 (modifications of the Schedule to the Secure Tenancies (Notices) Regulations 1987(1): prescribed forms in relation to secure tenancies) is amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1) (modification of Part 1 of the Schedule), in paragraph (a)(ii) for ““three months from the date this Notice is served and also cannot be earlier than” substitute

“—

(a) four weeks from the date this Notice is served where Ground 2A in Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1985 is specified in the Notice and no other ground is specified, and

(b) where paragraph (a) does not apply, six months from the date this Notice is served.

Court proceedings also cannot be begun earlier than”.

(3) In sub-paragraph (2) (modification of Part 2 of the Schedule), in the first bullet point of the modification, in paragraph (b), for “, three months from the date this Notice is served” substitute

“—

(i) four weeks from the date this Notice is served where Ground 2A in Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1985 is specified in the notice and no other ground is specified, and

(ii) where sub-paragraph (i) does not apply, six months from the date this Notice is served (unless proceedings are brought on Ground 2 in Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1985, in which case they may be begun immediately).”.

(1)

S.I. 1987/755.