A short post to confirm that the Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Act 2022 was signed into law on 29 October 2022. The “winter emergency period” referred to in the Act, during which there is to be a moratorium on the termination of residential tenancies, therefore runs from 30 October 2022

The Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022​ has been published today. This is the draft legislation intended to give effect to the temporary moratorium on residential tenancy terminations during what is referred to as the “winter emergency period”. The Bill provides the following:

  • The winter emergency period is defined as

28 July 2022 has been appointed as the commencement date for section 6(2)(c) of the Affordable Housing Act 2021.

This is the provision of the Act which allows a housing authority to enter into arrangements with the Land Development Agency for the purposes of making homes available for sale to eligible applicants under affordable dwelling

The Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 introduces, with effect from 6 July 2022, important changes to the law regarding the termination of residential tenancies. These amendments involve:

  • the introduction of a new requirement for landlords to serve a copy of any​ notice of termination on the Residential Tenancies

Further provisions of the Land Development Agency Act 2021 have been commenced with effect from 31 March 2022, as follows:

  • Section 11 (Revocation);
  • Section 14 (Functions of Agency);
  • Section 15 (Services to local authorities);
  • Section 17 (Chief executive of Agency);
  • Section 21 (Staff of Agency);
  • Part 3 (Funding of Agency) (except insofar as it is

As detailed in our earlier post, the Land Development Agency Act 2021 was signed into law on 21 July 2021 but further Ministerial order was required for its provisions to be commenced.

The first such order has been made and appoints 15 December 2021 as the commencement date for the following provisions of the

The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill was signed into law on 11 December 2021. Its main provisions are summarised in this post.

What is the Bill seeking to achieve?

This Bill has 3 primary purposes, as follows:

  1. An amendment to the current provisions around rent increases in RPZs, so that those increases will now be

3 September 2021 has been appointed as the commencement date for the following elements of the Affordable Housing Act 2021​:

Part 2: Affordable dwelling purchase arrangements (other than subsections 2(c), (6) and (7) of section 6 which relate to housing authorities (i) potentially entering into arrangements with the LDA and (ii) being required to have

It won’t have passed you by that the Government’s Housing for All strategy was published yesterday. It is available to read in full here.

​The strategy consists of 4 key pathways:

  1. Pathway to Supporting Home Ownership and Increasing Affordability;
  2. ​Pathway to Eradicating Homelessness, Increasing Social Housing Delivery and Supporting Social Inclusion;
  3. Pathway to Increasing