{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-114",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-114.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2016/1",
  "legislation_title": "Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "section/114",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "114",
  "heading": "Transfer to potential successor",
  "text": "(1) The contract-holder under a secure contract may transfer the contract as described in this section, but only if the landlord consents.\n(2) The contract-holder may transfer the contract to—\n(a) a potential successor, or\n(b) if there are two or more potential successors, all of the potential successors who wish to be included in the transfer.\n(3) If there is a sole contract-holder a potential successor is a person who, under section 74, would be qualified to succeed the contract-holder if the contract-holder died immediately before the transfer.\n(4) If there are joint contract-holders a potential successor is a person who, under section 74, would be qualified to succeed a joint contract-holder if—\n(a) the joint contract-holder died immediately before the transfer, and\n(b) when the joint contract-holder died he or she was the sole contract-holder.\n(5) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all secure contracts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 114 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/114",
    "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."
}