{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014/section-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014/section-43.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2014/7",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Wales) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014",
  "path": "section/43",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Activity in contravention of this Part: effect on tenancy agreements",
  "text": "(1) No rule of law relating to the validity or enforceability of contracts in circumstances involving illegality is to affect the validity or enforceability of any provision of a domestic tenancy of a dwelling in respect of which a contravention of this Part has occurred.\n(2) But periodical payments—\n(a) payable in connection with such a tenancy may be stopped in accordance with section 30 (rent stopping orders), and\n(b) paid in connection with such a tenancy may be recovered in accordance with sections 32 and 33 (rent repayment orders).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 43 in force at 23.11.2016 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/43",
    "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."
}