{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-22",
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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/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "New ground for possession to allow compliance with enforcement action",
  "text": "After Ground 6A (inserted by paragraph 21) insert—\n“Ground 6B\nAny of the following applies—\n(a) letting the dwelling-house causes the landlord to breach a banning order under section 16 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016, or would do so if the landlord were to continue to let the dwelling-house;\n(b) an improvement notice under section 11 or 12 of the Housing Act 2004—\n(i) specifies the dwelling-house or premises in which the dwelling-house is contained as requiring remedial action, and\n(ii) specifies overcrowding as the deficiency giving rise to the hazard in respect of which that remedial action is to be taken;\n(c) a prohibition order under section 20 or 21 of the Housing Act 2004 prohibits use of—\n(i) the dwelling-house,\n(ii) the common parts, or\n(iii) any part of the dwelling-house or of the common parts,\neither for all purposes or for any purpose that is incompatible with continued occupation by the tenant;\n(d) the dwelling-house is or is in an HMO which is required to be licensed under section 61 of the Housing Act 2004, and—\n(i) the landlord applied for a licence under section 63 of the Housing Act 2004 and the local housing authority refused to grant a licence, or\n(ii) the landlord held a licence but the licence has been revoked;\n(e) the dwelling-house is or is in a house which is required to be licensed under section 85 of the Housing Act 2004, and—\n(i) the landlord applied for a licence under section 87 of the Housing Act 2004 and the local housing authority refused to grant a licence, or\n(ii) the landlord held a licence but the licence has been revoked;\n(f) the dwelling-house is or is in an HMO which is licensed under Part 2 of the Housing Act 2004 or a house which is licensed under Part 3 of that Act and that HMO or house is occupied by more than the maximum number of households or persons specified in the licence;\n(g) compliance with a planning enforcement notice or injunction would be, or is, incompatible with continued occupation of the dwelling-house by the tenant.\nIn this ground—\n“common parts” has the same meaning as in Ground 13;\n“house” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Housing Act 2004 (see section 99 of that Act);\nreferences to the “landlord” are to the landlord who is seeking possession or, in the case of joint landlords seeking possession, to at least one of them;\n“planning enforcement notice or injunction” means—\n(a) an enforcement notice issued under section 172 or 182 of the TCPA 1990 that has taken effect,\n(b) a breach of condition notice served under section 187A of the TCPA 1990,\n(c) an injunction granted under section 187B of the TCPA 1990,\n(d) a listed building enforcement notice issued under section 38, 45 or 46 of the P(LBCA)A 1990 that has taken effect, or\n(e) an injunction granted under section 44A of the P(LBCA)A 1990;\n“P(LBCA)A 1990” means the Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Areas) Act 1990;\n“TCPA 1990” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;\n“the local housing authority” has the meaning given in section 261 of the Housing Act 2004.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 22 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(1)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 22 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/22",
    "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."
}