{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-amendment-wales-act-2021/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-amendment-wales-act-2021/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2021/3",
  "legislation_title": "Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-amendment-wales-act-2021",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Landlord's break clause under fixed term standard contract: minimum notice period",
  "text": "(1) The 2016 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 195 (landlord's break clause: minimum notice period)—\n(a) in subsection (1), for “two months” substitute “ six months ”;\n(b) for subsection (2) substitute—\n“(2) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all fixed term standard contracts, except fixed term standard contracts which—\n(a) do not have a landlord's break clause, or\n(b) are within Schedule 8A (whether or not they have a landlord's break clause).”\n(3) After section 195 insert—\n“Minimum notice period: fixed term standard contracts within Schedule 8A\n195A (1) If a fixed term standard contract is within Schedule 8A, the date specified in a notice under a landlord's break clause may not be less than two months after the day on which the notice is given to the contract-holder.\n(2) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all fixed term standard contracts which—\n(a) have a landlord's break clause, and\n(b) are within Schedule 8A.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 7.6.2021, see s. 19(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/3/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:55.639017+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."
}