Section 49: Adding a joint contract-holder

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

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

49(1)

The contract-holder under an occupation contract and another person may, with the consent of the landlord, make that person a joint contract-holder under the contract.

49(2)

If a person is made a joint contract-holder under this section he or she becomes entitled to all the rights and subject to all the obligations of a contract-holder under the contract from the day on which he or she becomes a joint contract-holder.

49(3)

This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all occupation contracts.

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