# The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022, Regulation 8: Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976

Extent: E+W

(1) The Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 4 (statutory tenants and tenancies)—
(a) at the end of subsection (4), insert “or, in the case of a dwelling-house in Wales, will be entitled to a secure contract of the dwelling-house by succession”;
(b) after subsection (6), insert—
“(7) In this section, “secure contract” has the same meaning as in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1) (see section 8 of that Act).”
(3) In section 33 (suspension of condition attached to planning permission)—
(a) in subsection (2), after “a tenancy to which subsection (3) below applies”, insert “, or an occupation contract to which subsection (3A) below applies”;
(b) after subsection (3), insert—
“(3A) This subsection applies to an occupation contract which immediately before the appointed day was an assured agricultural occupancy, within the meaning of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50).”;
(c) after subsection (5), insert—
“(6) In this section, the following terms have the same meaning as in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1)—
“appointed day” (see section 242 of that Act);
“occupation contract” (see section 7 of that Act).”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/1166/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016-consequential-amendments-regulations-2022/regulation-8
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