Section 102: Overview of Part

Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 · 2016 anaw 1View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 5: PROVISIONS APPLYING ONLY TO SECURE CONTRACTS — CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW

Chapters 1 to 5 of this Part apply only to secure contracts, and address—

variation of secure contracts,
withdrawal of joint contract-holders,
dealing (that is, taking a lodger and transferring the contract), and
the imposition of prohibited conduct standard contracts (where the landlord is a community landlord or registered charity).

Chapter 6 contains a fundamental provision about transfer of a secure contract to a person who is a contract-holder under another secure contract; this fundamental provision is applicable to secure contracts under which the landlord is a community landlord.

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