SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11 Minor And Consequential Amendments

The Housing Act 1988

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In section 7 of the M1Housing Act 1988 (orders for possession), in subsection (3) for the words “subsection (6)” there shall be substituted “ subsections (5A) and (6) ”.

(2)

In subsection (4) of that section for the words “subsection (6)” there shall be substituted “ subsections (5A) and (6) ”.

(3)

After subsection (5) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(5A)

The court shall not make an order for possession of a dwelling-house let on an assured periodic tenancy arising under Schedule 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 on any of the following grounds, that is to say,—

(a)

Grounds 1, 2 and 5 in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act;

(b)

Ground 16 in Part II of that Schedule; and

(c)

if the assured periodic tenancy arose on the termination of a former 1954 Act tenancy, within the meaning of the said Schedule 10, Ground 6 in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act.”