{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "New ground for possession for occupation by agricultural worker",
  "text": "After Ground 5 insert—\n“Ground 5A\nThe landlord seeking possession requires the dwelling-house for the purpose of housing a qualifying agricultural worker.\nFor the purpose of this ground a person is a “qualifying agricultural worker” in case A or B.\nCase A is where—\n(a) the person will be employed in agriculture as a seasonal or permanent employee under a contract of employment, and\n(b) the employer under that contract is—\n(a) the landlord, or\n(b) in the case of joint landlords seeking possession, at least one of those landlords.\nCase B is where—\n(a) the person will be—\n(i) employed in agriculture under a contract of employment, but the employer under that contract is not the landlord or, in the case of joint landlords, any of those landlords, or\n(ii) working in agriculture under a contract that is not a contract of employment, whether the contract is express or implied and (if express) whether oral or in writing,\n(b) the person will be employed or working in agriculture under that contract wholly or mainly for—\n(i) the landlord, or\n(ii) in the case of joint landlords seeking possession, at least one of the landlords, and\n(c) the relevant landlord intends that employment or work to continue for at least six months after the relevant date;\nand here “relevant landlord” means the landlord, or whichever of the joint landlords, the person will be wholly or mainly working for.\nIn this ground—\n“agriculture” has the same meaning as in the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 (see section 1 of that Act);\n“contract of employment” has the meaning given by section 230(2) of the Employment Rights Act 1996.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(1)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 1.5.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2026/421, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/schedule/1/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:43.804012+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."
}