Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw1)

PART 9 E+W TERMINATION ETC. OF OCCUPATION CONTRACTS

CHAPTER 5 E+W TERMINATION OF PERIODIC STANDARD CONTRACTS

Termination by landlord: landlord's notice E+W

Valid from 01/12/2022

[F1 177A Restriction on giving notice under section 173 following retaliatory possession claim E+W

(1) Subsection (2) applies where—

(a) a landlord (having given a contract-holder a notice under section 173) has made a possession claim on the ground in section 178, and

(b) the court has refused to make an order for possession because it considered the claim to be a retaliatory claim (see section 217).

(2) The landlord may not give another notice under section 173 to the contract-holder before the end of the period of six months starting with the day on which the court refused to make an order for possession.

(3) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all periodic standard contracts which incorporate section 173 as a term of the contract.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 177A inserted (7.6.2021) by Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 3), ss. 9(2), 19(3)