EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order, made by the Welsh Ministers, brings into force the remainder of the Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013 (“the 2013 Act”) in two stages. The Order also makes transitional and saving provisions under the 2013 Act.
Article 2 commences certain provisions of the 2013 Act on 7 January 2014, for the purposes of making regulations.
Article 3(1) brings the reminder of the 2013 Act, i.e. Parts 1 to 5 (and Schedules 1 to 3) into force on 1 October 2014. Article 3(2) makes a transitional provision in respect of Schedule 4 to the 2013 Act.
Article 4 makes saving provisions in respect of the sale or gift of a mobile home under Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Mobile Homes Act 1983 so that where, prior to 1 October 2014, an occupier of a mobile home has served a request on a site owner for the approval of the person to whom the occupier proposes to sell or gift the mobile home, the transaction may proceed (if the occupier so wishes) under the existing statutory provisions.
Part 6 of the 2013 Act came into force on the day after the 2013 Act received Royal Assent.