{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014/section-49.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2014/7",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Wales) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part and index of defined terms",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“community landlord” (“landlord cymunedol”) has the meaning given by section 9 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1);\n“domestic tenancy” (“tenantiaeth ddomestig”) has the meaning given by section 2;\n“dwelling” (“annedd”) has the meaning given by section 2;\n“fully mutual housing association” (“cymdeithas dai cwbl gydfuddiannol”) has the meaning given by section 1(2) of the Housing Association Act 1985;\n“landlord” (“landlord”) has the meaning given by section 2;\n“lettings work” (“gwaith gosod”) has the meaning given by section 10;\n“licensing authority” (“awdurdod trwyddedu”) means a person designated by order under section 3;\n“occupation contract” (“contract meddiannaeth”) has the meaning given by section 7 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016;\n“periodical payments” (“taliadau cyfnodol”) means payments by way of rent or service charge;\n“prescribed” (“rhagnodedig”) means prescribed in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers;\n“property management work” (“gwaith rheoli eiddo”) has the meaning given by section 12;\n“registered social landlord” (“landlord cymdeithasol cofrestredig”) means a social landlord registered under Part 1 of the Housing Act 1996;\n“rental property” (“eiddo ar rent”) has the meaning given by section 2.\n“standard occupation contract” (“contract meddiannaeth safonol”) has the meaning given by section 8 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016;\n(2) In this Part, a reference to assignment of an interest to a landlord—\n(a) includes any conveyance other than a mortgage or charge, and\n(b) if trustees constitute the landlord, does not include a change in the persons who are for the time being the trustees of the trust.\n(3) In this Part—\n(a) any reference to an application for a licence includes a reference to an application for renewal of a licence, and\n(b) any reference to the grant of a licence by a licensing authority includes a reference to renewal of a licence;\nand related expressions are to be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 49(1) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 34(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 49 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. 49 in force at 23.11.2015 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2015/1826, art. 2(y)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2014/7/section/49",
    "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."
}