Housing (Wales) Act 2014 / Deddf Tai (Cymru) 2014
Housing (Wales) Act 2014 / Deddf Tai (Cymru) 2014 (2014 anaw 7)
- Housing (Wales) Act 2014 / Deddf Tai (Cymru) 2014 (2014 anaw 7)
- PART 1 REGULATION OF PRIVATE RENTED HOUSING
- Introduction
- 1 Overview of this Part
- 2 Meaning of key terms
- 3 Licensing authority
- Prohibition of letting and management without registration and licence
- 4 Requirement for a landlord to be registered
- 5 Exceptions to the requirement for a landlord to be registered
- 6 Requirement for landlords to be licensed to carry out lettings activities
- 7 Requirement for landlords to be licensed to carry out property management activities
- 8 Exceptions to requirements for landlords to be licensed
- 9 Requirement for agents to be licensed to carry out lettings work
- 10 Meaning of lettings work
- 11 Requirement for agents to be licensed to carry out property management work
- 12 Meaning of property management work
- 13 Offence of appointing an unlicensed agent
- Registration
- 14 Duty to maintain register in relation to rental properties
- 15 Registration by a licensing authority
- 16 Duty to update information
- 17 Revocation of registration
- Licensing
- 18 Licences that may be granted
- 19 Licence application requirements
- 20 Fit and proper person requirement
- 21 Determination of application
- 22 Licence conditions
- 23 Duty to update information
- 24 Amendment of licence
- 25 Revocation of licence
- 26 Expiry and renewal of licence
- 27 Licensing appeals
- Enforcement
- 28 Prosecution by a licensing authority or a local housing authority
- 29 Fixed penalty notices
- 30 Rent stopping orders
- 31 Revocation of rent stopping orders
- 32 Rent repayment orders
- 33 Rent repayment orders: further provision
- 34 Power for Welsh Ministers to make regulations in relation to sections 32 and 33
- 35 Offences by bodies corporate
- Information
- 36 Requests for information from authorities and use of information by authorities
- 37 Power to require documents to be produced or information given
- 38 Enforcement of powers to obtain information
- 39 False or misleading information
- Powers of the Welsh Ministers
- 40 Code of practice
- 41 Guidance
- 42 Directions
- Supplementary
- 42A Crown Application: Part 1
- 43 Activity in contravention of this Part: effect on tenancy agreements
- 44 Restriction on terminating tenancies
- 45 Landlords who are trustees
- 46 Regulations about fees
- 47 Information about applications
- 48 Giving notification etc. under this Part
- General
- 49 Interpretation of this Part and index of defined terms
- PART 2 HOMELESSNESS
- CHAPTER 1 HOMELESSNESS REVIEWS AND STRATEGIES
- 50 Duty to carry out a homelessness review and formulate a homelessness strategy
- 51 Homelessness reviews
- 52 Homelessness strategies
- CHAPTER 2 HELP FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS OR THREATENED WITH HOMELESSNESS
- Introduction
- 53 Overview of this Chapter
- Key terms
- 54 Application of key terms
- 55 Meaning of homeless and threatened homelessness
- 56 Meaning of accommodation available for occupation
- 57 Whether it is reasonable to continue to occupy accommodation
- 58 Meaning of abuse and domestic abuse
- 59 Suitability of accommodation
- Information, advice and assistance in accessing help
- 60 Duty to provide information, advice and assistance in accessing help
- Eligibility
- 61 Eligibility for help under this Chapter
- Applications for help and assessment
- 62 Duty to assess
- 63 Notice of the outcome of assessment
- Duties to help applicants
- 64 How to secure or help to secure the availability of accommodation
- 65 Meaning of help to secure
- 66 Duty to help to prevent an applicant from becoming homeless
- 67 Circumstances in which the duty in section 66 ends
- 68 Interim duty to secure accommodation for homeless applicants in priority need
- 69 Circumstances in which the duty in section 68 ends
- 70 Priority need for accommodation
- 71 Meaning of vulnerable in section 70
- 72 Power to amend or repeal provisions about priority need for accommodation
- 73 Duty to help to secure accommodation for homeless applicants
- 74 Circumstances in which the duty in section 73 ends
- 75 Duty to secure accommodation for applicants in priority need when the duty in section 73 ends
- 76 Circumstances in which the duty in section 75 ends
- 77 Meaning of intentionally homeless
- 78 Deciding to have regard to intentionality
- 79 Further circumstances in which the duties to help applicants end
- Referral to another local housing authority
- 80 Referral of case to another local housing authority
- 81 Local connection
- 82 Duties to applicant whose case is considered for referral or referred
- 83 Cases referred from a local housing authority in England
- Notice
- 84 Notice that duties have ended
- Right to review and appeal
- 85 Right to request review
- 86 Procedure on review
- 87 Effect of a decision on review or appeal that reasonable steps were not taken
- 88 Right of appeal to county court on point of law
- 89 Appeals against refusal to accommodate pending appeal
- Supplementary provisions
- 90 Charges
- 91 Out-of-area placement
- 92 Interim accommodation in England: arrangements with private landlord
- 92A Accommodation in Wales
- 93 Protection of property
- 94 Protection of property: supplementary provisions
- 95 Co-operation
- 96 Co-operation in certain cases involving children
- General
- 97 False statements, withholding information and failure to disclose change of circumstances
- 98 Guidance
- 99 Interpretation of this Chapter and index of defined terms
- 100 Consequential amendments
- PART 3 GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS
- Meeting accommodation needs
- 101 Assessment of accommodation needs
- 102 Report following assessment
- 103 Duty to meet assessed needs
- 104 Failure to comply with duty under section 103
- 105 Provision of information upon request
- 106 Guidance
- 107 Duties in relation to housing strategies
- General
- 108 Interpretation
- 109 Power to amend definition of Gypsies and Travellers
- 110 Consequential amendments
- PART 4 STANDARDS FOR SOCIAL HOUSING
- Standards for housing provided by local housing authorities
- 111 Standards
- 112 Guidance
- 113 Consultation on standards and guidance
- 114 Information on compliance with standards
- 115 Powers of entry
- 116 Exercise of intervention powers
- 117 Grounds for intervention
- 118 Warning notice
- 119 Power of Welsh Ministers to intervene
- 120 Power to require local housing authority to obtain advisory services
- 121 Power to require performance of functions by other persons on behalf of authority
- 122 Power to require performance of functions by Welsh Ministers or nominee
- 123 Power to direct exercise of other local housing authority functions
- 124 General power to give directions and take steps
- 125 Directions
- 126 Duty to co-operate
- 127 Powers of entry and inspection
- Service charges for social housing
- 128 Exemption from offences relating to service charges for social housing
- 129 Application of duties relating to service charges to local authority tenancies
- General
- 130 Consequential amendments
- PART 5 HOUSING FINANCE
- Housing Revenue Account subsidy
- 131 Abolition of Housing Revenue Account subsidy
- Payments in relation to Housing Revenue Accounts
- 132 Settlement payments
- 133 Further payments
- 134 Additional provision about payments
- General provision
- 135 Provision of information upon request
- 136 Determinations under this Part
- PART 6 ALLOWING FULLY MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS TO GRANT ASSURED TENANCIES
- 137 Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Housing Act 1988
- 138 Amendment of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988
- PART 7 COUNCIL TAX FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DWELLING
- 139 Amount of tax payable for certain types of dwelling
- PART 8 AMENDMENT OF THE LEASEHOLD REFORM, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT 1993
- 140 Amendment of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993
- PART 9 MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
- Miscellaneous
- 141 Minor amendments to the Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013
- General
- 142 Orders and regulations
- 143 Meaning of local housing authority
- 144 Power to make consequential and transitional provision etc
- 145 Commencement
- 146 Short title
- SCHEDULE 1 REGISTER OF PRIVATE RENTED HOUSING
- PART 1 CONTENT OF REGISTER
- Landlords
- Agents
- PART 2 ACCESS TO REGISTER
- SCHEDULE 2 ELIGIBILITY FOR HELP UNDER CHAPTER 2 OF PART 2
- Persons not eligible for help
- Asylum-seekers and their dependants: transitional provision
- Provision of information by Secretary of State
- SCHEDULE 3 MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
- PART 1 HOMELESSNESS
- Housing Act 1985
- Housing Act 1996
- Homelessness Act 2002
- Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
- Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013
- Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
- PART 2 GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS
- Local Government Act 2003
- Housing Act 2004
- Housing (Assessment of Accommodation Needs) (Meaning of Gypsies and Travellers) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3235)
- Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013
- PART 3 STANDARDS FOR SOCIAL HOUSING
- Housing Act 1985
- Housing Act 1996
- PART 4 COUNCIL TAX FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DWELLING
- Local Government Finance Act 1992
- PART 5 AMENDMENTS TO THE MOBILE HOMES (WALES) ACT 2013
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