Building Safety (Wales) Act 2026

75 Power to make provision relating to terms of occupation contracts

(1) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations amend the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1) to—

(a) include a fundamental provision applicable to all occupation contracts, or to particular kinds or descriptions of occupation contract, for the purpose of enabling a landlord or contract-holder to comply with a provision of this Act or regulations made under it;

(b) provide that a provision of this Act or regulations made under it is a fundamental provision applicable to all occupation contracts, or to particular kinds or descriptions of occupation contract;

(c) make provision about—

(i) the incorporation, or incorporation with modifications, of a fundamental provision mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) as a fundamental term of an occupation contract;

(ii) the variation of such a fundamental term.

(2) The regulations may also—

(a) amend section 30IA of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (c. 70) (inserted by section 70 of this Act) to provide that it does not apply to any occupation contract, or to particular kinds or descriptions of occupation contract;

(b) make consequential amendments to any enactment (including this Act).

(3) Expressions used in this section that are also used in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 have the same meanings in this section as they have in that Act.