{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-104",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-104.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2016/1",
  "legislation_title": "Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "section/104",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "104",
  "heading": "Variation of rent",
  "text": "(1) The landlord may vary the rent payable under a secure contract by giving the contract-holder a notice setting out a new rent to take effect on the date specified in the notice.\n(2) The period between the day on which the notice is given to the contract-holder and the specified date may not be less than two months.\n(3) Subject to that—\n(a) the first notice may specify any date, and\n(b) subsequent notices must specify a date which is not less than one year after the last date on which a new rent took effect.\n(4) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all secure contracts under which rent is payable , except a secure contract which is a housing association tenancy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(4) 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(2) (as amended by S.I. 2022/906, arts. 1(2), 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 104 in force at 1.12.2022 by S.I. 2022/906, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/1/section/104",
    "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."
}