{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-rent-determination-converted-contracts-wales-regulations-2022/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-rent-determination-converted-contracts-wales-regulations-2022/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2022/781",
  "legislation_title": "The Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-rent-determination-converted-contracts-wales-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Assumptions in accordance with which a rent assessment committee must determine rent",
  "text": "When making a determination of rent for a dwelling under these Regulations, a rent assessment committee must determine the rent at which it considers the dwelling concerned might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing landlord under an occupation contract of the same type as the relevant converted contract to which the notice under section 104 or 123 of the Act relates, assuming that—\n(a) the occupation contract begins on the date specified in the notice under section 104 or 123 of the Act,\n(b) the granting of a contract to a sitting contract-holder has no effect on the rent,\n(c) any increase in the value of the dwelling attributable to a relevant improvement carried out by a person who at the time it was carried out was the tenant, licensee or relevant contract-holder has no effect on the rent, if the improvement was carried out—\n(i) otherwise than in pursuance of an obligation to the immediate landlord, or\n(ii) pursuant to an obligation to the immediate landlord being an obligation which did not relate to the specific improvement concerned but arose by reference to consent given to the carrying out of that improvement,\n(d) any reduction in the value of the dwelling attributable to a failure by the ... relevant contract-holder to comply with any terms of the ... relevant converted contract or the tenancy or licence which existed immediately before the appointed day has no effect on the rent,\n(e) where the landlord or a superior landlord is liable to pay council tax in respect of a hereditament of which the dwelling forms part, under Part 1 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, the amount of council tax which, as at the date on which the notice under section 104 or 123 was served, was set by the billing authority—\n(i) for the financial year in which the notice was served, and\n(ii) for the category of dwellings within which the relevant hereditament fell on that date,\nhas an effect on the rent, but any discount or other reduction affecting the amount of council tax payable has no effect on the rent, and\n(f) neither the landlord nor a superior landlord is paying rates in respect of the dwelling.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6 substituted (30.11.2022) by The Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1078), regs. 1, 3(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(a) substituted (30.11.2022) by The Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1078), regs. 1, 3(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(c) substituted (30.11.2022) by The Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1078), regs. 1, 3(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(d) omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of The Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1078), regs. 1, 3(3)(e)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(d) omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of The Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1078), regs. 1, 3(3)(e)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(d) inserted (30.11.2022) by The Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1078), regs. 1, 3(3)(e)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 1.12.2022 , see reg. 1 (as amended by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/906), art. 13)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/781/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:06:29.386006+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."
}