{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-74",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-74.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2016/1",
  "legislation_title": "Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "section/74",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Persons qualified to succeed",
  "text": "(1) A person is qualified to succeed the contract-holder if that person—\n(a) is a priority successor of the contract-holder or a reserve successor of the contract-holder, and\n(b) is not excluded by subsection (3) or (4).\n(2) But if the contract-holder was a reserve successor in relation to the occupation contract, no person is qualified to succeed him or her.\n(3) A person is excluded if he or she has not reached the age of 18 at the time of the contract-holder's death.\n(4) A person is excluded if at any time in the period of 12 months ending with the contract-holder's death he or she occupied the dwelling or part of it under a sub-occupation contract.\n(5) A person is not excluded by subsection (4) if—\n(a) he or she is a priority successor of the contract-holder, or he or she is a reserve successor of the contract-holder who meets the family member condition in section 76(2) because of section 250(1)(a) or (b) (spouses, civil partners etc.), and\n(b) the sub-occupation contract under which he or she occupied the dwelling or part of it ended before the contract-holder's death.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 74 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/74",
    "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."
}