The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022

Saving provisions: secure tenant’s improvements

11.—(1) The provisions in this regulation have effect despite the amendments made by the 2022 Consequential Regulations and the 2022 Secondary Consequential Regulations.

(2) Sections 97(1) and (3)(1) (tenant’s improvements require consent), 98 (provisions as to consents required by s97), 99 (conditional consent to improvements) and 100(2) (power to reimburse cost of tenant’s improvements) of the 1985 Act continue to have effect after the appointed day in relation to a converted secure contract, as they had effect immediately before that day in relation to a secure tenancy, but only where a request for consent to improvement was made by the tenant before the appointed day (whether such consent is given before or after that day).

(1)

Section 97 was amended by section 118 of and paragraphs 2 and 12 of Schedule 7 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22) and section 155 of the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20).

(2)

Section 100 was amended by section 194 of and paragraph 66 of Schedule 11 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), sections 103 and 147 of and paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 1 and Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Housing Grants, Constructions and Regeneration Act 1996 (c. 53) and articles 12 and 15 of and paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 and Schedule 6 to the Regulatory Reform (Housing Assistance) (England and Wales) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/1860).