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 3NOTICE PERIODS: AMENDMENTS TO MODIFICATIONS MADE BY SCHEDULE 29

SECURE TENANCIES

Amendment of modifications made to section 83 of the Housing Act 19856.

(1)

Paragraph 3 of Schedule 29 (notice of possession proceedings in relation to secure tenancies) is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph (b), omit “, in relation to a dwelling-house in England,”.

(3)

in paragraph (c)—

(a)

in inserted subsection (4B)(a)(ii) of the modification, for “, three months after the date of service of the notice,” substitute

“—

(aa)

four weeks after the date of service of the notice where Ground 2A in Schedule 2 is specified without any other ground, and

(ab)

where sub-paragraph (aa) does not apply, six months after the date of service of the notice,”.