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1.Overview of this Part
2.Meaning of key terms
3.Licensing authority
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
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
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
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
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
40.Code of practice
41.Guidance
42.Directions
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
49.Interpretation of this Part and index of defined terms
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
53.Overview of this Chapter
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
60.Duty to provide information, advice and assistance in accessing help
61.Eligibility for help under this Chapter
62.Duty to assess
63.Notice of the outcome of assessment
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
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
84.Notice that duties have ended
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
90.Charges
91.Out-of-area placement
92.Interim accommodation: arrangements with private landlord
93.Protection of property
94.Protection of property: supplementary provisions
95.Co-operation
96.Co-operation in certain cases involving children
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
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
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
130.Consequential amendments
PART 5 HOUSING FINANCE
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
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
140.Amendment of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993
141.Minor amendments to the Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013
142.Orders and regulations
143.Meaning of local housing authority
144.Power to make consequential and transitional provision etc
REGISTER OF PRIVATE RENTED HOUSING
PART 1 CONTENT OF REGISTER
1.An entry in the register relating to a landlord must...
2.An entry in the register for a person licensed to...
PART 2 ACCESS TO REGISTER
3.(1) A licensing authority must notify a person of the...
4.(1) A licensing authority must notify a person of the...
5.(1) A licensing authority must notify a person of the...
ELIGIBILITY FOR HELP UNDER CHAPTER 2 OF PART 2
Persons not eligible for help
1.(1) A person is not eligible for help under section...
Asylum-seekers and their dependants: transitional provision
2.(1) Until the commencement of the repeal of section 186...
Provision of information by Secretary of State
3.(1) The Secretary of State must, at the request of...
PART 1 HOMELESSNESS
1.In paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Act...
2.The Housing Act 1996 is amended as follows.
3.In section 167 (allocation of housing accommodation in accordance with...
4.In the Part title of Part 7 (homelessness), after “Homelessness”...
5.In subsection (1) of section 179 (duty of local housing...
6.In subsection (1) of section 180 (assistance for voluntary organisations),...
7.In subsection (1) of section 182 (guidance by the Secretary...
8.In subsection (1) of section 183 (application for assistance), after...
9.In subsection (1) of section 187 (provision of information by...
10.In section 193 (duty to persons with priority need who...
11.In section 198 (referral of case to another local housing...
12.In subsection (4) of section 200 (duties to applicant whose...
13.After section 201 (application of referral provisions to cases arising...
14.In subsection (1) of section 213 (co-operation between relevant housing...
15.The Homelessness Act 2002 is amended as follows.
16.In the cross-heading above section 1, after “strategies” insert “...
17.In section 1 (duty of local housing authority to formulate...
18.In subsection (7A) of section 3 (homelessness strategies), omit “in...
19.In subsection (1)(a) of section 50 of the Mental Health...
20.(1) The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act...
21.In subsection (7)(d) of section 7 of the Prevention of...
22.(1) The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 is...
PART 2 GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS
23.(1) The definition of “housing” in subsection (4) of section...
24.(1) The Housing Act 2004 is amended as follows.
Housing (Assessment of Accommodation Needs) (Meaning of Gypsies and Travellers) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3235)
25.The Housing (Assessment of Accommodation Needs) (Meaning of Gypsies and...
26.(1) The Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013 is amended as...
PART 3 STANDARDS FOR SOCIAL HOUSING
27.In section 24 (rents for occupation of local housing authority...
28.(1) The Housing Act 1996 is amended as follows.
PART 4 COUNCIL TAX FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DWELLING
29.(1) The Local Government Finance Act 1992 is amended as...
PART 5 AMENDMENTS TO THE MOBILE HOMES (WALES) ACT 2013
30.(1) The Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013 is amended as...