SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11 Minor And Consequential Amendments

The Housing Act 1988

101

In section 7 of the M1Housing Act 1988 (orders for possession), in subsection (3) for the words “subsection (6)” there shall be substituted “ subsections (5A) and (6) ”.

2

In subsection (4) of that section for the words “subsection (6)” there shall be substituted “ subsections (5A) and (6) ”.

3

After subsection (5) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection—

5A

The court shall not make an order for possession of a dwelling-house let on an assured periodic tenancy arising under Schedule 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 on any of the following grounds, that is to say,—

a

Grounds 1, 2 and 5 in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act;

b

Ground 16 in Part II of that Schedule; and

c

if the assured periodic tenancy arose on the termination of a former 1954 Act tenancy, within the meaning of the said Schedule 10, Ground 6 in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act.