{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-fees-discrimination-etc-wales-act-2019/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-fees-discrimination-etc-wales-act-2019/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2019/2",
  "legislation_title": "Renting Homes (Fees, Discrimination etc.) (Wales) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-fees-discrimination-etc-wales-act-2019",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“contract-holder” (“deiliad contract”) has the same meaning as in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1) (referred to in this section as “the 2016 Act”);\n“dwelling” (“annedd”) has the same meaning as in the 2016 Act;\n“holding deposit” (“blaendal cadw”) has the meaning given in Schedule 1;\n“landlord” (“landlord”) has the same meaning as in the 2016 Act; and if two or more persons jointly constitute the landlord, references in this Act to the landlord are to each of those persons;\n“local housing authority” (“awdurdod tai lleol”) means the council for a county or county borough in Wales;\n“prohibited payment” (“taliad gwaharddedig”) has the meaning given in section 4;\n“regulations” (“rheoliadau”) means regulations made by the Welsh Ministers;\n“security deposit” (“blaendal sicrwydd”) has the meaning given in Schedule 1;\n“standard occupation contract” (“contract meddiannaeth safonol”) means a contract that is a standard contract for the purposes of the 2016 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 7 applied (with modifications) (1.9.2019) by The Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019 (Transitional Provision for Assured Shorthold Tenancies) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1151), regs. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 28 in force at 1.9.2019 by S.I. 2019/1150, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2019/2/section/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:04.658314+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."
}