Paragraph 10 inserts a new ground for possession (Ground 4A) that will allow landlords to recover possession of an HMO or dwelling-house in an HMO let to full-time students, if the relevant date (the date specified in the section 8 notice) is between 1 June and 30 September, in order to re-let the property to full-time students again or to people who the landlord reasonably believes will become full-time students during the tenancy. If the property is let on a joint tenancy, each tenant must be a full-time student when the tenancy is entered into, or, the landlord must reasonably believe they will become full-time students during the tenancy at that point for the ground to be relied upon. If there are individual tenancies between the landlord and each tenant within an HMO, only tenants who meet the student criteria can be evicted.
	Landlords will be required to provide written notice before the tenancy is entered into of their intention to use the ground on the basis that the current tenants are full-time students (or the landlord reasonably believes they will become so during the tenancy), and the landlord intends to relet the property to new full-time students. Unless this written notice is provided, landlords will not be able to regain possession using the ground.
	Landlords will not be able to use the ground if the tenancy was agreed more than six months in advance of the date on which the tenant has a right to occupy the dwelling.
	The final un-numbered subparagraph ensures that Ground 4A is available where a tenancy which was excluded from assured status under paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 of the Housing Act 1988 no longer meets the condition for exclusion and therefore becomes an assured tenancy. It allows landlords of those tenancies to comply with the requirement in paragraph (c) within 28 days of the tenancy becoming assured.
Schedules Schedule 1: Changes to grounds for possession New ground for possession of properties occupied by students (4A) Effect