Clause 15 - Demoted assured shorthold tenancies
Anti-social Behaviour Bill
12:00 pm
Mr Tony McNulty (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Harrow East, Labour)
The tenants of RSLs will be able to be demoted from assured tenancy agreements to assured shorthold tenancy agreements because of antisocial behaviour. Amendment No. 230 ensures that landlords can obtain a possession order at any time during a demoted assured shorthold tenancy by giving the tenant two months' notice of their intention to end the tenancy.
Amendment No. 231 clarifies what happens to the demoted assured shorthold tenancy at the end of the demotion period. It is important that a demoted tenant who changes their behaviour should be able to return to the same rights as other tenants. It has always been the intention that a period of demotion should be fixed rather than indefinite, with either eviction or full tenancy rights coming to fruition at the end of the period. The clause as drafted allows for that but the amendment clarifies that a demoted assured shorthold tenancy will become an assured tenancy at the end of the period.
Amendment agreed to.
Amendment made: No. 231, in
clause 15, page 14, line 27, at end insert—
'( ) In Schedule 2A of that Act (assured tenancies which are not shorthold tenancies) after paragraph 5 (former secure tenancies) there is inserted the following paragraph—
''Former demoted tenancies
5A. An assured tenancy which ceases to be an assured shorthold tenancy by virtue of section 20B(2) or (4).''.'
—[Mr. McNulty.]
Clause 15, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.