Legislation – The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Residential Tenancies: Protection from Eviction) (Wales) Regulations 2020

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Introduction

PART 1
INTRODUCTION

1 Title and coming into force

2 Meaning of references to “Schedule 29”

PART 2
EXTENSION OF RELEVANT PERIOD

3 Extension of the relevant period in Schedule 29

PART 3
NOTICE PERIODS: AMENDMENTS TO MODIFICATIONS MADE BY SCHEDULE 29

4 Amendment of modifications made to section 5(1) of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977

5 Amendment of modifications made to section 3 of the Rent Act 1977

6 Amendment of modifications made to section 83 of the Housing Act 1985

7 Suspension of provision relating to section 83 of the Housing Act 1985 where notice is given on anti-social behaviour grounds

8 Suspension of provisions relating to section 83ZA of the Housing Act 1985 where notice is given on anti-social behaviour grounds

9 Amendment of modifications made to section 8 of the Housing Act 1988

10 Suspension of provisions relating to section 8(3A) and (4) of the Housing Act 1988 (Grounds 7A or 14: anti-social behaviour, offences etc.)

11 Amendment of modifications made to section 128 of the Housing Act 1996

12 Amendment of modifications made to section 143E of the Housing Act 1996

PART 4
CHANGES TO PRESCRIBED FORMS

13 Consequential modifications to prescribed forms relating to secure tenancies

14 Suspension of modifications to the Secure Tenancies (Notices) Regulations 1987 relating to Ground 2

15 Consequential modifications to prescribed forms relating to assured tenancies and agricultural occupancies

PART 5
PRESCRIBED INFORMATION IN NOTICES TO QUIT

16 Amendment to the Notices to Quit etc. (Prescribed Information) Regulations 1988

PART 6
TRANSITIONAL PROVISION

17 Transitional provision

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Explanatory note

PART 5PRESCRIBED INFORMATION IN NOTICES TO QUIT

Amendment to the Notices to Quit etc. (Prescribed Information) Regulations 198816.

(1)

The Schedule to the Notice to Quit etc. (Prescribed Information) Regulations 19886 is to be read, in relation to a Rent Act notice to quit given in relation to premises in Wales during the relevant period, as if after paragraph 2 there were inserted—

“Prescribed information where less than 6 months’ notice has been given3.

Where a notice to quit has been given less than 6 months before the date on which it is to take effect, the following information must be given—

  • “The notice to quit has been given less than 6 months before the date on which it is to take effect on the basis that the landlord believes that the circumstance specified in Case 2 in Schedule 15 to the Rent Act 1977 applies (conduct which is a nuisance or annoyance to adjoining occupiers, or dwelling-houses used for immoral or illegal purposes).””

(2)

In sub-paragraph (1)—

(a)

“Rent Act notice to quit” means a notice to quit relating to a tenancy that is a protected tenancy for the purposes of the Rent Act 19777 (see section 1 of that Act), and

(b)

“relevant period” means the period beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force and ending with the date specified in paragraph 1(b)(ii) of Schedule 29.