{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016-consequential-amendments-regulations-2022/regulation-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016-consequential-amendments-regulations-2022/regulation-29.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2022/1166",
  "legislation_title": "The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016-consequential-amendments-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "text": "(1) The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 149 (exempted disposals), after subsection (8), insert—\n“(9) Exception 7 is a letting under an occupation contract (within the meaning of section 7 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1)) in respect of a dwelling in Wales.”\n(3) In section 153 (proposals: procedure)—\n(a) in subsection (1), in paragraph (b), after “(so far as is reasonably practicable)”, insert “or its contract-holders (so far as is reasonably practicable),”;\n(b) in subsection (3), in paragraph (b), after “its tenants”, insert “or contract-holders”;\n(c) in subsection (7), in paragraph (b), after “its tenants”, insert “or contract-holders”.\n(4) In section 275 (general), insert at the appropriate places in alphabetical order—\n““contract-holder” has the meaning given in section 7 (see also section 48) of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1),”;\n““occupation contract” has the meaning given in section 7 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016,”.\n(5) In section 276 (index of defined terms) in the Table, insert at the appropriate places in alphabetical order—\n“\nContract-holder\nSection 275\n”\n“\nOccupation contract\nSection 275\n”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 29 in force at 1.12.2022, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2008 c. 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "There are amendments to section 149 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 153(1) was amended by section 151(1) of and paragraphs 121 and 122 of Part 2 of Schedule 4 to the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14) and article 2(c) of and paragraph 8 of Schedule 11 to the Financial Services Act 2012 (Mutual Societies) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/496)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "There are amendments to section 275 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "There are amendments to section 276 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/1166/regulation/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:05:37.488365+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."
}