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Changes over time for: Cross Heading: Ground 2

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Point in time view as at 08/05/2017.

Changes to legislation:

Housing Act 1985, Cross Heading: Ground 2 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 27 February 2025. 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. Help about Changes to Legislation

[F1 Ground 2]E+W

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 2 Ground 2 substituted (4.2.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 144; S.I. 1997/66, art. 2 (with Sch.)

[F2The tenant or a person residing in or visiting the dwelling-house—

(a)has been guilty of conduct causing or likely to cause a nuisance or annoyance to a person residing, visiting or otherwise engaging in a lawful activity in the locality,

[F3(aa)has been guilty of conduct causing or likely to cause a nuisance or annoyance to the landlord of the dwelling-house, or a person employed (whether or not by the landlord) in connection with the exercise of the landlord's housing management functions, and that is directly or indirectly related to or affects those functions,] or

(b)has been convicted of—

(i)using the dwelling-house or allowing it to be used for immoral or illegal purposes, or

(ii)an [F4indictable] offence committed in, or in the locality of, the dwelling-house.]

Textual Amendments

F2Sch. 2 Ground 2 substituted (4.2.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 144; S.I. 1997/66, art. 2 (subject to savings in Sch.)

F4Sch. 2 Pt. 1: word in Ground 2 para. (b)(ii) substituted (1.1.2005) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), ss. 111, 178(8), Sch. 7 para. 45; S.I. 2005/3495, art. 2(1)

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