The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Residential Tenancies: Protection from Eviction) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020

Suspension of provisions in Schedule 29 to the Coronavirus Act 2020 in England

2.  The following paragraphs of Schedule 29 are suspended in relation to England—

(a) paragraph 3 (modification of section 83 of the Housing Act 1985(1): notice of possession proceedings in relation to secure tenancies) for the purposes of a notice under section 83 of the Housing Act 1985 specifying Ground 2 in Schedule 2 to that Act (discretionary ground for anti-social behaviour) (whether with or without other grounds);

(b) paragraph 4 (modification of section 83ZA of the Housing Act 1985(2): notice of possession proceedings on absolute ground for anti-social behaviour in relation to secure tenancies);

(c) paragraph 6(a) and (b) (modification of section 8(3A) and (4) of the Housing Act 1988(3): notice of possession proceedings on Ground 7A and 14 in relation to assured tenancies);

(d) paragraph 10(1)(a)(i) and (b) (modifications to Part 1 of the Schedule to the Secure Tenancies (Notices) Regulations 1987(4) relating to Ground 2);

(e) paragraph 12(1)(c) and (d) (modifications to Form 3 in the Schedule to the Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) (England) Regulations 2015(5) relating to Grounds 7A and 14).

(1)

1985 c. 68. Section 83 was substituted by section 147(1) of the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52), section 14(3) of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 (c. 38) and paragraph 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 11 to the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12).

(2)

1985 c. 68. Section 83ZA was inserted by section 95 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12).

(3)

1988 c. 50. Subsection (3A) of section 8 was inserted by section 97(2)(b) of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. Subsection (4) of section 8 was substituted by s.151(4) of the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52) and amended by S.I. 2014/2830.

(4)

S.I. 1987/755; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1997/71, S.I. 1997/357 and S.I. 2010/671.

(5)

S.I. 2015/620; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2016/1118.