Residential mobile homes7

In Part 7 of Schedule 3 to the Act, after paragraph 30C insert—

Residential mobile homes30D

1

A person (A) who is the owner of a protected site does not contravene section 29, so far as relating to age discrimination, by—

a

entering into a mobile home agreement with a person (B) that entitles only persons who have attained a particular age to station and occupy a mobile home on land forming part of the site, or

b

refusing to permit assignment by B of a mobile home agreement to any person other than a person who has attained a particular age.

2

A does not contravene section 29, so far as relating to age discrimination, by imposing a requirement in park rules that mobile homes stationed on land forming part of the site and occupied under mobile home agreements may be occupied only by persons who have attained a particular age.

3

A does not contravene section 29, so far as relating to age discrimination, by—

a

imposing in or under a mobile home rental agreement with a person (C) a requirement that the mobile home to which the agreement relates may be occupied only by persons who have attained a particular age, or

b

refusing to permit assignment by C of a mobile home rental agreement to any person other than a person who has attained a particular age.

4

But A may not rely on sub-paragraph (1) or (3) unless, before doing something mentioned in that sub-paragraph, A provides B or C, as the case may be, with a written statement to the effect that the mobile home in question may be occupied only by persons who have attained the age in question.

5

In this paragraph,

  • “mobile home agreement” means an agreement to which the Mobile Homes Act 19837 applies; and “owner”, “protected site” and “mobile home” have the same meaning as in that Act;

  • “park rules” means rules applying to residents of mobile homes on the protected site and required to be observed by a term in the mobile home agreement or the mobile home rental agreement as the case may be;

  • “mobile home rental agreement” means an agreement (other than an arrangement to occupy a mobile home for the purposes of a holiday) under which a person (“the occupier”) is entitled to occupy a mobile home on the protected site as the occupier’s residence whether for a specified period or for successive periods of a specified duration subject to payment of money and the performance of other obligations.