Section 48: Joint contract-holders: joint liability etc.

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

Part 3: PROVISIONS APPLYING TO ALL OCCUPATION CONTRACTS — CHAPTER 5: JOINT CONTRACT-HOLDERS AND JOINT LANDLORDS

48(1)

If there are two or more joint contract-holders under an occupation contract, each joint contract-holder is fully liable to the landlord for the performance of every obligation owed to the landlord under the contract.

48(2)

References in this Act to the contract-holder, except where otherwise provided, are to the joint contract-holders.

48(3)

Subsection (2) applies even if the occupation contract is a tenancy and the leasehold estate is vested in one or more, but not all, of the joint contract-holders.

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