Section 182: Restrictions on section 181

Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 · 2016 c.1

Part 9: TERMINATION ETC. OF OCCUPATION CONTRACTS — CHAPTER 5: TERMINATION OF PERIODIC STANDARD CONTRACTS

182(1)

Before making a possession claim on the ground in section 181, the landlord must give the contract-holder a possession notice specifying that ground.

182(2)

The landlord under a periodic standard contract that is not an introductory standard contract or a prohibited conduct standard contract may not make the claim—

(a) before the end of the period of 14 days starting with the day on which the landlord gives the contract-holder the possession notice, or

(b) after the end of the period of six months starting with that day.

182(3)

The landlord under an introductory standard contract or a prohibited conduct standard contract may not make the claim—

(a) before the end of the period of one month starting with the day on which the landlord gives the contract-holder the possession notice, or

(b) after the end of the period of six months starting with that day.

182(4)

Subsection (1) is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all periodic standard contracts, and—

(a) subsection (2) is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all periodic standard contracts that are not introductory standard contracts or prohibited conduct standard contracts;

(b) subsection (3) is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term only of introductory standard contracts and prohibited conduct standard contracts.

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