# Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016, Section 74: Persons qualified to succeed


(1) A person is qualified to succeed the contract-holder if that person—
(a) is a priority successor of the contract-holder or a reserve successor of the contract-holder, and
(b) is not excluded by subsection (3) or (4).
(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.
(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.
(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.
(5) A person is not excluded by subsection (4) if—
(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
(b) the sub-occupation contract under which he or she occupied the dwelling or part of it ended before the contract-holder's death.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/1/section/74 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-wales-act-2016/section-74
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