Part III U.K. Landlord and Tenant

Chapter II E+W Assured tenancies

Grounds for possession E+W

102 Recovery of possession where grant induced by false statement. E+W

In Part II of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988 (grounds on which court may order possession) there shall be inserted at the end—

“ Ground 17

The tenant is the person, or one of the persons, to whom the tenancy was granted and the landlord was induced to grant the tenancy by a false statement made knowingly or recklessly by—

(a) the tenant, or

(b) a person acting at the tenant’s instigation.”

Commencement Information

I1 S. 102 wholly in force at 28.2.1997 by S.I. 1997/225, art. 2 (subject to savings in the Sch. to that S.I.)