Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports

28 March 2022

SL(6)176 – The Renting Homes (Prescribed Forms) (Wales) Regulations 2022

Procedure: Made Negative

These Regulations set out 38 prescribed forms of notice which may be used by landlords or contract-holders in particular circumstances where the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (the 2016 Act) requires or authorises either party to provide certain information in writing. 

For example, there are forms that may be used by landlords to give notice to contract-holders:

§ of an address to which documents intended for the landlord may be sent (Form RHW2);

§ that a new rent will take effect on a specified date (Form RHW12);

§ that the contract-holder must give up possession of a dwelling on a specified date (Form RHW16);.

§ that the landlord intends to make a possession claim to the court (Form RHW23);

§ that the probation period is to be extended to a period of 18 months (Form RHW37).

Landlords and contract-holders may download these from the Welsh Government website and, once completed, they may be issued electronically in accordance with the 2016 Act.  Some forms also include guidance notes in order to make their purpose more easily understandable.

Parent Act: Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016

Date Made: 08 March 2022

Date Laid: 10 March 2022

Coming into force date: