Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016

Variation

15 (1) Sections 104 and 123 (variation of rent) apply to a converted contract as if any variations in the rent payable under the contract before the appointed day were variations under whichever of those sections applies.

(2) The Welsh Ministers must by regulations make provision—

(a) enabling the contract-holder under a relevant converted contract, following receipt of a notice under section 104 or 123, to apply to a prescribed person or persons for a determination of the rent for the dwelling, and

(b) for the rent determined by the prescribed person or persons, in accordance with such assumptions as may be prescribed, to be the rent for the dwelling under the contract (unless the landlord and contract-holder otherwise agree).

(3) A converted contract is a relevant converted contract if immediately before the appointed day it was a tenancy to which section 13 of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50) (increases of rent under assured periodic tenancies) applied.