# Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, Section 13: Power to exclude person from home in cases of violence or risk of harm


(1) A housing injunction may have the effect of excluding the respondent from the place where he or she normally lives (“the premises”) only if—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) the injunction is granted on the application of—
(i) a local authority,
(ii) the chief officer of police for the police area that the premises are in, or
(iii) if the premises are owned or managed by a housing provider, that housing provider, and
(c) the court thinks that—
(i) the housing-related anti-social conduct in which the respondent has engaged or threatens to engage consists of or includes the use or threatened use of violence against other persons, or
(ii) there is a significant risk of harm to other persons from the respondent.
(2) For the purposes of this section a housing provider owns a place if—
(a) the housing provider is a person (other than a mortgagee not in possession) entitled to dispose of the fee simple of the place, whether in possession or in reversion, or
(b) the housing provider is a person who holds or is entitled to the rents and profits of the place under a lease that (when granted) was for a term of not less then 3 years.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/12/section/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-crime-and-policing-act-2014/section-13
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