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Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014

Section 99: Offences connected with riot

220.This section adds a new discretionary ground for possession into Schedule 2 to the 1985 Act (subsection (1)) and Schedule 2 to the Housing Act (subsection (2)) so that a landlord can apply for possession of a secure or assured tenant’s property where the tenant or an adult living in the tenant’s property has been convicted of an indictable offence committed at the scene of a riot which took place anywhere in the UK. This section applies only to dwelling houses in England.

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