{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016-consequential-amendments-regulations-2022/regulation-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016-consequential-amendments-regulations-2022/regulation-35.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/35",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Consumer Rights Act 2015",
  "text": "(1) The Consumer Rights Act 2015 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 83 (duty of letting agents to publicise fees etc), in subsection (4)(b)—\n(a) after “tenants”, insert “or contract-holders”;\n(b) after “tenant”, insert “or contract-holder”;\n(c) after “tenancy”, insert “or occupation contract”.\n(3) In section 86 (letting agency work and property management work)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(a)—\n(i) after “assured tenancy”, insert “or an occupation contract”;\n(ii) after “such a tenancy”, insert “or occupation contract”;\n(b) in subsection (1)(b)—\n(i) after “assured tenancy”, insert “or an occupation contract”;\n(ii) after “such a tenancy”, insert “or occupation contract”;\n(c) in subsection (4)(b) after “assured tenancy”, insert “or an occupation contract”.\n(4) In section 88 (supplementary provisions)—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) at the appropriate places in alphabetical order, insert—\n““contract-holder” has the same meaning as in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1) (see section 7 of that Act) and includes a person who proposes to be a contract-holder under an occupation contract because the occupation contract has come to an end;”;\n““occupation contract” has the same meaning as in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (see section 7 of that Act) except where—\n(a)the landlord is—\n(i)a private registered provider of social housing,\n(ii)a registered social landlord, or\n(iii)a fully mutual housing association, or\n(b)the tenancy is a long lease;”;\n(ii) in the definition of “landlord”, after “tenancy”, in each place it occurs, insert “or an occupation contract”;\n(iii) in the definition of “long lease”, for paragraphs (a) and (b), substitute—\n“(a) in relation to England—\n(i) is a long lease for the purposes of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28), or\n(ii) in the case of a shared ownership lease (within the meaning given by section 7(7) of that Act), would be a lease within sub-paragraph (a)(i) of this definition if the tenant’s total share (within the meaning given by that section) were 100%;\n(b) in relation to Wales, falls within the definition of “long tenancy” given by paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1).”;\n(b) in subsection (3), after “tenancy”, in each place it occurs, insert “or occupation contract”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 35 in force at 1.12.2022, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2015 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 83(4) was amended by section 18 of the Tenant Fees Act 2019 (c. 4). There are other amendments to section 83, 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/35",
    "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."
}