{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mobile-homes-selling-and-gifting-england-regulations-2013/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mobile-homes-selling-and-gifting-england-regulations-2013/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/981",
  "legislation_title": "The Mobile Homes (Selling and Gifting) (England) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mobile-homes-selling-and-gifting-england-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Existing agreements: grounds on which site owner may apply for a refusal order",
  "text": "(1) The grounds prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 7B(7) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (sale of mobile home: existing agreements) are that, if the proposed occupier were to become the occupier, the proposed occupier or a person intending to reside with the proposed occupier would breach a pre-commencement rule or site rule—\n(a) by reason of age;\n(b) by keeping animals that are of a description specified in the rule;\n(c) by parking vehicles on the site that are of a description specified in the rule; or\n(d) by parking a number of vehicles on the site in excess of the number specified in the rule.\n(2) The grounds prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 8B(7) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (gift of mobile home: existing agreements) are—\n(a) the grounds mentioned in paragraph (1); or\n(b) that the proposed occupier has failed to provide the owner with the relevant evidence (as defined by paragraph 8A(3) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act).\n(3) In addition to the grounds prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2), the grounds prescribed for the purposes of paragraphs 7B(7) and 8B(7) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (sale or gift of mobile home: existing agreements) are that a relevant owner has a policy in place for the allocation of pitches on the site to gypsies and travellers, which a sale or gift to the proposed occupier would contravene.\n(4) In paragraph (3) “relevant owner” means a private registered provider of social housing as defined by section 80 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7(3)(4) substituted for reg. 7(3) (1.4.2014) by The Mobile Homes (Site Licensing) (England) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/442), regs. 1, 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 26.5.2013, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/981/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:37.978950+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."
}