{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2014/7",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Wales) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Meaning of property management work",
  "text": "(1) In this Part, “property management work” means doing any of the following things—\n(a) collecting rent;\n(b) being the principal point of contact for the tenant in relation to matters arising under the tenancy;\n(c) making arrangements with a person to carry out repairs or maintenance;\n(d) making arrangements with a tenant or occupier of the dwelling to secure access to the dwelling for any purpose;\n(e) checking the contents or condition of the dwelling, or arranging for them to be checked;\n(f) serving notice to terminate a tenancy.\n(2) But “property management work” does not include doing any one of the things in paragraphs (b) to (f) of subsection (1) when done by a person who—\n(a) does no other thing within subsection (1), and\n(b) does nothing within section 10(1) in respect of the dwelling.\n(3) “Property management work” also does not include—\n(a) doing things under a contract of service or apprenticeship with a landlord;\n(b) doing things under a contract of service or apprenticeship, or a contract for services, with a person who is—\n(i) instructed to carry out the work by a landlord, and\n(ii) licensed to do so under this Part;\n(c) anything done by a local housing authority (whether or not in exercise of its functions as a local housing authority);\n(d) things of a description, or things done by a person of a description, specified for the purposes of this section in an order made by the Welsh Ministers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at 1.12.2014 for specified purposes by S.I. 2014/3127, art. 2(b), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at 23.11.2016 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2016/1066, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2014/7/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:23.296415+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}