{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-14",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Ground 16 to be renumbered as Ground 5C and to be a mandatory ground for possession",
  "text": "(1) Ground 16 in Part 2 of Schedule 2, together with the italic heading before it, moves to after Ground 5B (inserted by paragraph 13 of this Schedule) and becomes Ground 5C in Part 1 of that Schedule.\n(2) For the first paragraph of the new Ground 5C substitute—\n“The dwelling-house was let to the tenant in consequence of the tenant’s employment—\n(a) by the landlord seeking possession,\n(b) in the case of joint landlords seeking possession, by at least one of them,\n(c) by a previous landlord under the tenancy, or\n(d) pursuant to an agreement between any of those landlords and the employer,\nand either—\n(a) the tenant has ceased to be in that employment, or\n(b) the tenancy was granted for the purpose of providing the tenant with accommodation during the early period of their employment, that purpose has been fulfilled and the landlord seeking possession intends to let the dwelling-house to another current or future employee of the employer.\nIn this ground, “the employer” means the tenant’s employer at the time the tenant entered the tenancy.”\n(3) After the second paragraph of the new Ground 5C insert—\n“This ground also applies to the letting of a dwelling-house to a tenant in consequence of the tenant’s service in the office of constable, but with the following modifications.\n“Employment” means service in the office of constable.\nIn the first paragraph of this ground, in paragraph (d), “the employer” means any of the following persons—\n(a) the chief officer of a police force;\n(b) a policing body;\n(c) in relation to a constable’s service under the direction and control of a person who is not a constable (the “senior person”)—\n(i) the senior person, or\n(ii) a person or body with the function of maintaining or securing the maintenance of the body of which the senior person is a member.\nThe first paragraph of this ground has effect as if the following were substituted for the second paragraph (b)—\n(b) “the tenancy was granted for a particular purpose relating to the tenant’s service as a constable and—\n(i) that purpose has been fulfilled, or\n(ii) the tenancy is no longer required for that purpose.”\nIn those modifications—\n(a) “service in the office of a constable” includes a constable’s service under the direction and control of a person who is not a constable;\n(b) “chief officer of a police force” means—\n(i) a chief officer of police (which has the same meaning as in the Police Act 1996 — see section 101(1) of that Act),\n(ii) the chief constable of the Ministry of Defence Police,\n(iii) the chief constable of the British Transport Police,\n(iv) the chief constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary,\n(v) the chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland, or\n(vi) the chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland;\n(c) “policing body” means—\n(i) a local policing body (which has the same meaning as in the Police Act 1996 — see section 101(1) of that Act),\n(ii) the Secretary of State in relation to the Ministry of Defence Police,\n(iii) the British Transport Police Authority,\n(iv) the Civil Nuclear Police Authority,\n(v) the Scottish Police Authority, or\n(vi) the Northern Ireland Policing Board.”\n(4) In the italic heading, for “16” substitute “5C”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(1)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14 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/14",
    "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."
}