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This Statutory Instrument corrects errors in S.I. 2022/907 (W. 198) and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Welsh Statutory Instruments
Housing, Wales
Made
24 October 2022
Laid before Senedd Cymru
25 October 2022
Coming into force
30 November 2022
The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 255 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016(1), make the following Regulations.
1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) (Amendment) Regulations 2022.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 30 November 2022.
2.—(1) The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2022(2) are amended as follows.
(2) In Schedule 1 (amendments consequential upon the commencement of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016)—
(a)for the heading to paragraph 3 (Assured Tenancies (Notice to Tenant) Regulations 1981(3)), in the Welsh text, substitute “Rheoliadau Tenantiaethau Sicr (Hysbysiad i’r Tenant) 1981”;
(b)in paragraph 19 (Long Residential Tenancies (Principal Forms) Regulations 1997(4)) in sub-paragraphs (b)(ii) and (iii), omit “monthly”;
(c)in paragraph 20 (Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Collective Investment Schemes) Order 2001(5)), in sub-paragraph (a), for “paragraph”, substitute “sub-paragraph”;
(d)in paragraph 21 (Allocation of Housing (Wales) Regulations 2003(6)), in the English text, for sub-paragraph (a), substitute—
“(a)in regulation 2 (interpretation)—
(i)after the definition of “the Common Travel Area”, omit “and”;
(ii)for the full stop at the end of the definition of “the immigration rules”, substitute “; and”;
(iii)after the definition of “the immigration rules”, insert—
““secure contract” (“contract diogel”) has the same meaning as in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (see section 8 of that Act).””;
(e)in paragraph 30 (Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016(7)), in paragraph (b), in the footnote to the Housing Act 1985(8), after “section 163 of the”, insert “Local Government and”.
(3) In Schedule 2 (revocations), in the heading “Table 1”, omit “1”.
Julie James
Minister for Climate Change, one of the Welsh Ministers
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1) (“the 2016 Act”) provides for most tenancies and licences of dwellings occupied by individuals as homes in Wales to be occupation contracts. The 2016 Act also makes provision as to the terms of occupation contracts.
The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/907 (W. 198)) (“the 2022 Regulations”) make consequential amendments to secondary legislation to reflect the new provisions in the 2016 Act. These Regulations correct minor technical and typographical errors in the 2022 Regulations.
The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with this instrument.
2016 anaw 1. Section 255(2) was amended by section 14 of and paragraphs 1 and 8 of Schedule 5 to the Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 3).
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