{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-158",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-158.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2016/1",
  "legislation_title": "Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "section/158",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "158",
  "heading": "False statement inducing landlord to make contract to be treated as breach of contract",
  "text": "(1) If the landlord under an occupation contract is induced to make the contract by means of a relevant false statement—\n(a) the contract-holder is to be treated as being in breach of the occupation contract, and\n(b) the landlord may accordingly make a possession claim on the ground in section 157 (breach of contract).\n(2) A false statement is relevant if it is made knowingly or recklessly by—\n(a) the contract-holder, or\n(b) another person acting at the contract-holder's instigation.\n(3) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all occupation contracts; section 20 provides that this section—\n(a) must be incorporated, and\n(b) must not be incorporated with modifications.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 9 excluded (1.12.2022) by 2004 c. 34, s. 33(c) (as inserted by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 28(2)(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 158 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/158",
    "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."
}