{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2016/1",
  "legislation_title": "Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A tenancy or licence is not an occupation contract at any time when this paragraph applies to it.\n(2) This paragraph applies to a tenancy or licence if all the persons with whom it is made are excluded from being contract-holders by section 7(6) (individuals who have not reached the age of 18).\n(3) This paragraph also applies to—\n(a) a tenancy to which Part 2 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (c. 56) (business tenancies) applies;\n(b) a protected occupancy or a statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 (c. 80);\n(c) a protected tenancy or a statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Rent Act 1977 (c. 42);\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) a tenancy of an agricultural holding within the meaning of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c. 5);\n(f) a farm business tenancy within the meaning of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 (c. 8);\n(g) a long tenancy (see paragraph 8);\n(h) a tenancy or licence which relates to armed forces accommodation (see paragraph 9);\n(i) a tenancy or licence which relates to direct access accommodation (see paragraph 10);\n(j) a tenancy or licence which relates to accommodation provided—\n(i) by, or on behalf of, the Secretary of State in connection with a requirement imposed under section 3(6) (general provisions) of the Bail Act 1976 (c. 63), or\n(ii) under Part 1 (arrangements for the provision of probation services) of the Offender Management Act 2007 (c. 21) for the probation purposes (within the meaning of section 1 of that Act);\n(k) a tenancy or licence which relates to—\n(i) accommodation provided under section 4 (accommodation) or Part 6 (support for asylum-seekers, etc.) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33), or\n(ii) facilities provided under paragraph 9 of Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19) (immigration bail) for the accommodation of a person at an address specified in an immigration bail condition;\n(l) a licence which relates to private sector temporary homelessness accommodation (see paragraph 10A).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7(3)(d) omitted (7.6.2021) by virtue of Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 3), s. 19(3), Sch. 5 para. 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7(3)(j)(k) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/803), regs. 1(1), 2 (as amended by S.I. 2022/906, arts. 1(2), 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7(3)(l) inserted (30.11.2023) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 and Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (Wales) Order 2015 (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1277), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7 in force at 1.12.2022 by S.I. 2022/906, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/19",
      "affecting_title": "Immigration Act 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/3",
      "affecting_title": "Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/1/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}