Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019 (anaw2)

PART 4 E+W Enforcement

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 4 applied (with modifications) (1.9.2019) by The Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019 (Transitional Provision for Assured Shorthold Tenancies) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1151), regs. 1(2), 3

Notification of conviction to licensing authority E+W

14 Duty of local housing authority to notify licensing authority of conviction E+W

(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after becoming aware that a person has been convicted of an offence under this Act in respect of a dwelling in its area, a local housing authority must comply with subsection (2).

(2) The authority must give notification of the conviction to the licensing authority designated under section 3 of Part 1 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 (anaw 7), or, if there is more than one licensing authority so designated, to each of those authorities.

(3) This section does not require a local housing authority to give a licensing authority notification of a conviction if the proceedings which led to the conviction were brought by the licensing authority under section 19.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 14 in force at 1.9.2019 by S.I. 2019/1150, art. 2(a)