SCHEDULE 1E+WAmendments consequential upon the commencement of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016

Housing Action Trust Areas (Tenant Notification) Regulations 1989E+W

11.  The Housing Action Trust Areas (Tenant Notification) Regulations 1989(1) are amended as follows—

(a)in regulation 2 (prescribed descriptions of tenants)—

(i)for the heading, substitute “Prescribed descriptions of tenants (England)”;

(ii)for “The descriptions”, substitute “In relation to England, the descriptions”;

(b)after regulation 2, insert—

Prescribed descriptions of tenants (Wales)

3.  In relation to Wales, the descriptions of tenants prescribed for the purposes of section 61(2) of the Housing Act 1988(2) are the tenants of a local housing authority who would be secure contract-holders but for the effect of—

(a)paragraph 7(3)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016(3) (business tenancies), or

(b)paragraph 7(3)(g) of Schedule 2 to the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (long tenancies).

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 1 para. 11 in force at 1.12.2022, see reg. 1(2)

(2)

1988 c. 50. Section 61(2) was amended by article 2 of and paragraph 6(a) of the Schedule to the Housing Act 1996 (Consequential Amendments) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/74).

(3)

2016 anaw 1. There are amendments to Schedule 2 which are not relevant to these Regulations.