Legislation Update: Renting Homes Bill

OVERVIEW

In 2006 the Law Commission began to look into the way tenancy contracts are issued and the legal complications around them. They concluded that the law surrounding tenancy agreements was far too complicated for tenants, and perhaps some landlords, to fully understand.

The Welsh Government decided to act on the work by the Law Commission and began setting out to completely overhaul the way contracts are issued. The Renting Homes Bill (commonly referred to as RHB) doesn’t stop at the contracts, it includes a number of other changes to the way landlords operate, such as:-

• Retaliatory Eviction 
• Abandonment
• The 6 month Moratorium
• Fitness for Human Habitation  
• Model Contracts

The Renting Homes Bill is still making its way through the assembly and isn’t expected to be passed until 2016. 

We will bring you more informaion as and when it becomes available.