101.This section inserts new section 12ZA into the 1984 Act. This new section provides that the Tribunal must, when making an order for possession of a house that is let to a tenant under a protected tenancy or a statutory tenancy, consider if it would be reasonable to postpone the right to possession for a period. In doing so, the Tribunal may consider if the absence of a postponement would cause the tenant, the tenant’s household or the landlord financial hardship or have certain other detrimental effects. The examples given in paragraph 96 of these Notes are relevant here too. The duty to consider postponing the right does not apply if the ground for possession is based only on the ground mentioned in section 12ZA(5).
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