{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-amendment-wales-act-2021/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-amendment-wales-act-2021/section-9.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/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Restriction on giving notice under section 173 and under landlord's break clause following retaliatory possession claim",
  "text": "(1) The 2016 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) After section 177 (inserted by section 7) insert—\n“Restriction on giving notice under section 173 following retaliatory possession claim\n177A (1) Subsection (2) applies where—\n(a) a landlord (having given a contract-holder a notice under section 173) has made a possession claim on the ground in section 178, and\n(b) the court has refused to make an order for possession because it considered the claim to be a retaliatory claim (see section 217).\n(2) The landlord may not give another notice under section 173 to the contract-holder before the end of the period of six months starting with the day on which the court refused to make an order for possession.\n(3) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all periodic standard contracts which incorporate section 173 as a term of the contract.”\n(3) For section 198 of the 2016 Act (restrictions on giving notice under landlord's break clause: security and deposit requirements) substitute—\n“Restriction on use of landlord's break clause following retaliatory possession claim\n198 (1) Subsection (2) applies where—\n(a) a landlord (having given a contract-holder a notice under a landlord's break clause) has made a possession claim on the ground in section 199, and\n(b) the court has refused to make an order for possession because it considered the claim to be a retaliatory claim (see section 217).\n(2) The landlord may not give another notice under a landlord's break clause to the contract-holder before the end of the period of six months starting with the day on which the court refused to make an order for possession.\n(3) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all fixed term standard contracts with a landlord's break clause.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}