{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-protection-from-eviction-wales-coronavirus-regulations-2021/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-protection-from-eviction-wales-coronavirus-regulations-2021/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2021/12",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Health (Protection from Eviction) (Wales) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-protection-from-eviction-wales-coronavirus-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Residential tenancies (protection from eviction)",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), no person may attend at a dwelling-house for the purpose of—\n(a) executing a writ or warrant of possession,\n(b) executing a writ or warrant of restitution, or\n(c) delivering a notice of eviction.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where the court is satisfied that the writ, warrant or notice relates to an order for possession made—\n(a) against trespassers pursuant to a claim to which rule 55.6 (service of claims against trespassers) of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 applies,\n(b) wholly or partly under section 84A (absolute ground for possession for anti-social behaviour) of the Housing Act 1985,\n(c) wholly or partly on Ground 2 or Ground 2A in Schedule 2 (grounds for possession of dwelling-houses let under secure tenancies) to the Housing Act 1985,\n(d) wholly or partly on Ground 7A, Ground 14 or Ground 14A in Schedule 2 (grounds for possession of dwelling-houses let on assured tenancies) to the Housing Act 1988,\n(e) wholly or partly on Ground 7 (ground for possession where tenant dies and no right of succession) in Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988, or\n(f) wholly or partly under Case 2 of Schedule 15 (ground for possession of dwelling-houses let on or subject to protected or statutory tenancies) to the Rent Act 1977.\n(3) Where paragraph (2)(e) applies, the person attending at the dwelling-house must take reasonable steps to satisfy themselves that the dwelling-house is unoccupied before carrying out those matters set out in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/3132 (L. 17). Rule 55.6 was inserted by Schedule 1 to S.I. 2001/256 (L. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 84A was inserted by section 94(1) of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12) (“the 2014 Act”) and was amended by paragraph 84 of Schedule 24 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) (“the 2020 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Ground 2 was substituted by section 144 of the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52) (“the 1996 Act”) and amended by paragraph 45 of Schedule 7 to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15) (“the 2005 Act”) and section 98(1) of the 2014 Act. Ground 2A was inserted by section 145 of the 1996 Act and amended by paragraph 33 of Schedule 8 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) (“the 2004 Act”) and by S.I. 2019/1458."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Ground 7A was inserted by section 97(1) of the 2014 Act and amended by paragraph 97 of Schedule 24 to the 2020 Act. Ground 14 was substituted by section 148 of the 1996 Act and amended by paragraph 46 of Schedule 7 to the 2005 Act and section 98(2) of the 2014 Act. Ground 14A was inserted by section 149 of the 1996 Act and amended by paragraph 43(3) of Schedule 8 to the 2004 Act, S.I. 2010/866, S.I. 2011/1396 and S.I. 2019/1458."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "There are amendments to Ground 7 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/12/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:13:25.233543+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."
}