{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/schedule-1/part-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/schedule-1/part-1.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2016/1",
  "legislation_title": "Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/1",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "SECURE CONTRACTS",
  "text": "TABLE 3\nFUNDAMENTAL PROVISION\nNATURE OF PROVISION\nNOTES\nSection 31\nLandlord (“L”) must provide contract-holder (“C-H”) with written statement of occupation contract\nSections 39 and 40\nL must provide C-H with L's name and address and other information\nSection 41\nNotices and documents must be in writing\nSections 43 and 45\nPayment of deposits etc. and requirement that L uses authorised deposit scheme\nSection 45 must be incorporated without modification.\nSection 49\nC-H may, with L's consent, add joint C-H\nSection 52\nRights of joint C-H where another joint C-H dies or otherwise leaves contract\nMust be incorporated without modification.\nSection 54\nL must not interfere with C-H's right to occupy the dwelling\nSection 54A\nL must not interfere with C-H’s right to have persons under 18 visit or live at the dwelling\nSection 54B\nL must not prohibit C-H from claiming welfare benefits\nSection 55\nAnti-social behaviour and other prohibited conduct\nMust be incorporated without modification.\nSection 57\nC-H may only deal with the occupation contract in limited ways\nSection 88\nC-H may set off compensation L is liable to pay under section 87 against C-H's rent\nSections 91 to 93 and 95 to 99\nL's obligations to keep the dwelling in good state of repair etc.\nSections 103 to 109\nWhen and how contract may be varied\nSections 103(1)(b) and (2) and 108 must be incorporated without modification. Section 104 applies only to contracts under which rent is payable and which are not housing association tenancies (as to which, see section 93 of the Rent Act 1977 (c. 42)), and section 105 applies only to contracts under which consideration other than rent is payable.\nSection 111\nWithdrawal of joint C-H\nSection 113\nC-H may have lodgers\nSection 114\nC-H may transfer contract to potential successors\nSection 118\nC-H's right to transfer to other secure C-Hs\nOnly applies where L is a community landlord.\nSections 148 to 150\nGeneral provision about termination of contract\nSections 148 and 149 must be incorporated without modification.\nSections 152 to 155\nTermination without possession claim\nSection 155 (death of C-H) must be incorporated without modification.\nSections 157 to 159\nTermination by L on ground of breach of contract\nSection 158 (false statement inducing L to make contract) must be incorporated without modification.\nSections 160 and 161 and Part 1 of Schedule 8\nTermination by L on an estate management ground\nSections 163 to 167\nTermination by notice given by C-H\nSection 206\nEffect of order for possession\nSection 231\nTermination of contract which has joint C-Hs",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 Pt. 1 Table 3 inserted (1.6.2026) by Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (c. 26), ss. 46(8), 145(3) (with s. 138); W.S.I. 2026/6, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 Pt. 1 table 3 inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Housing Association Tenancies: Fundamental Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/799), regs. 1, 5(6)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2022/906, arts. 1(2), 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 1 in force at 1.12.2022 by S.I. 2022/906, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "anaw/2019/2",
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      "affecting_title": "Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/1/schedule/1/part/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:17.774658+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."
}