# Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016, Section 177A: Restriction on giving notice under section 173 following retaliatory possession claim


(1) Subsection (2) applies where—
(a) a landlord (having given a contract-holder a notice under section 173) has made a possession claim on the ground in section 178, and
(b) the court has refused to make an order for possession because it considered the claim to be a retaliatory claim (see section 217).
(2) The landlord may not give another notice under section 173 to the contract-holder before the end of the period of six months starting with the day on which the court refused to make an order for possession.
(3) This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all periodic standard contracts which incorporate section 173 as a term of the contract.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/1/section/177A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-177A
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