Mobile Homes Act 2013

1. Introduction

2. Summary and Background

3. Territorial Extent and Application

4. Commentary

   1. Licensing

      1. Section 1: Fees

      2. Section 2: Local authority discretion on application to issue or transfer licence

      3. Section 3: Site licence conditions: appeals

      4. Section 4: Compliance notices

      5. Section 5: Powers for local authority to carry out works

      6. Section 6: Sections 4 and 5: appeals, operative periods, recovery of expenses

      7. Section 7: Residential property tribunals: jurisdiction under the 1960 Act

   2. Management of sites

      1. Section 8: Requirement for manager of site to be fit and proper person

   3. Pitch agreements

      1. Section 9: Site rules

      2. Section 10: Implied terms: removal of requirement for site owner consent to sale or gift

         1. New agreements

            1. New paragraph 7A (sale of mobile home)

         2. New paragraph 8A (gift of mobile home)

         3. Existing agreements

            1. New paragraphs 7B (sale of mobile home) and 8B (gift of a mobile home)

         4. New paragraph A1 of Part 3 of Schedule 1: provision of information

      3. Section 11: Implied terms: pitch fees

   4. Offences

      1. Section 12: Protection against eviction and harassment, false information etc.

      2. Section 13: Increase in penalties for certain offences under the 1960 Act

      3. Section 14: Offences by bodies corporate under the 1960 Act

5. Commencement

6. Hansard References