Affordable Housing Act 2021 (Cost Rental Letting and Eligibility) Regulations 2021.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Affordable Housing Act 2021 (Cost Rental Letting and Eligibility) Regulations 2021.
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 2022.
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paragraphs: In these Regulations –
(a) to which access is readily available by members of the public, and
(b) where anything published is readily available for inspection by members of the public;
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paragraphs: Where a tenancy in a cost rental dwelling is, or is scheduled to become, available for letting, the landlord shall advertise online the available tenancy for a period of not less than 7 days, during which period the landlord of the cost rental dwelling concerned shall accept applications from prospective tenants.
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paragraphs: An application from a prospective tenant to the landlord of the cost rental dwelling concerned, under Regulation 3, shall be made in whatever form or manner is designated by the landlord, which may include submission of the application by electronic means.
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paragraphs: Where the number of applications for an available tenancy in a cost rental dwelling exceeds the number of cost rental dwellings available for letting at the relevant time, the landlord shall, through means of an independently verifiable lottery, select from the total number of applicants a number of applicants equal to the number of tenancies available.
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paragraphs: In the event that applicants selected for a cost rental dwelling withdraw their application or, in the opinion of the landlord, do not meet the eligibility criteria, further applicants can be selected from those applications submitted under Regulation 3 in order to fill the vacancies concerned.
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paragraphs: Submitted applications under these Regulations in respect of a vacancy in a cost rental dwelling may be retained by the landlord for a period of not more than 12 months from the date on which the vacancy in the dwelling concerned was advertised under Regulation 3, and any further letting vacancy arising during that period for that dwelling may be selected, from the relevant group of applicants, in the order determined by the lottery under Regulation 5.
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paragraphs: The landlord of a cost rental dwelling under these Regulations shall require a prospective tenant, prior to the signing of any tenancy agreement, to submit a list of the proposed members of the household which will occupy the dwelling if the tenancy is granted.
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paragraphs: The landlord shall assess the number of persons in each household and place tenants into particular dwellings of a size appropriate to their needs.
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paragraphs: A landlord shall satisfy himself or herself that the annual total net income of all prospective tenants in the household concerned shall not exceed €53,000 in order to be considered as a qualified household.
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paragraphs: For the purposes of the assessment under Regulation 10, annual total net income means that income tax, universal social charge, pay-related social insurance and superannuation contributions are deducted from the relevant assessable gross income.