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PART 5STermination

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. 5 excluded by 2002 c. 29, s. 269A(5) (as inserted (27.4.2017 for specified purposes, 31.1.2018 in so far as not already in force) by Criminal Finances Act 2017 (c. 22), ss. 29(5), 58(1)(6); S.I. 2018/78, reg. 3(l))

CHAPTER 3STermination at landlord's instigation

Wrongful terminationS

57Wrongful termination by eviction orderS

(1)This section applies where a private residential tenancy has been brought to an end by an eviction order.

(2)An application for a wrongful-termination order may be made to the First-tier Tribunal by a person who was, immediately before the tenancy ended, either the tenant or a joint tenant under the tenancy.

(3)The Tribunal may make a wrongful-termination order if it finds that it was misled into issuing the eviction order by the person who was, immediately before the tenancy ended, the landlord under the tenancy.

(4)In a case where two or more persons jointly were the landlord under the tenancy immediately before it ended, the reference to the landlord in subsection (3) is to any one of those persons.

Commencement Information

I1S. 57 in force at 1.12.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2, sch.