{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-194",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-194.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2016/1",
  "legislation_title": "Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "section/194",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "194",
  "heading": "Landlord's break clause",
  "text": "(1) A fixed term standard contract which is within subsection (1A) may contain a term enabling the landlord to end the contract before the end of the fixed term by giving the contract-holder notice that he or she must give up possession of the dwelling on a date specified in the notice.\n(1A) A fixed term standard contract is within this subsection if—\n(a) it is made for a term of two years or more, or\n(b) it is within Schedule 9C (whether or not it is made for a term of two years or more).\n(2) References in this Act to a landlord's break clause, in relation to a fixed term standard contract, are to the term mentioned in subsection (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 194(1) inserted (7.6.2021) by Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 3), ss. 11(1)(a), 19(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 194(1A) inserted (7.6.2021) by Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 3), ss. 11(1)(b), 19(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 194 excluded (1.12.2022) by 2004 c. 34, s. 98A (as inserted by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 28(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "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. 194 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/194",
    "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."
}