386.Section 75 provides a regulation making power enabling the Welsh Ministers to amend the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (“the 2016 Act”). Subsection (1)(a) sets out that these regulations may amend the 2016 Act to include a fundamental provision, applicable to all or some occupation contracts, for the purpose of enabling a landlord or contract-holder to comply with a provision of this Act or regulations made under it. Subsection (1)(b) enables the regulations to also provide that a provision of this Act or regulations made under it is a fundamental provision applicable to all or some occupation contracts.
387.Subsection (1)(c) enables the regulations to make provision about the incorporation, or incorporation with modifications, of fundamental provisions mentioned in subsections (1)(a) or (b) as fundamental terms and the variation of such fundamental terms.
388.Subsection (2) also provides that the regulations may amend section 30IA of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (which was inserted by section 69 of this Act) to provide that section 30IA does not apply to any or some occupation contracts and to make consequential amendments to any enactment.
389.Subsection (3) provides that expressions used in this section that are also used in the 2016 Act have the same meaning as they have in that Act.
390.Regulations made under this section are subject to the initial procedure in section 77 and the Senedd approval procedure.
Commentary on Sections Part 1 - Safety of Buildings Containing Two Or More Residential Units Occupation contracts Section 75 - Power to make provision relating to terms of occupation contracts