This section provides for amendments to be made to Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988 (assured tenancies: grounds on which court must order possession). The amendments provide for a new mandatory ground for a landlord to obtain possession of a property following receipt of notification from the Secretary of State that an occupant is a disqualified person.
	Subsection (2) inserts a new Ground 7B into Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988. Landlords may rely on this mandatory ground for possession of a dwelling-house let on an assured tenancy where the Secretary of State has given notice in writing to a landlord that any tenant or adult occupier is disqualified from occupying the property as a result of their immigration status. The landlord may serve a notice seeking possession. Where the tenants do not vacate the property, the landlord will be able to rely upon this new ground in seeking a possession order from the courts.
	Subsections (3) and (4) make other consequential amendments to sections 7 and 8 of the Housing Act 1988 which are consequential on the introduction of new Ground 7B.
	Subsection (5) inserts a new section 10A into the Housing Act 1988 which provides that where one or more tenants who are occupying a property let on an assured tenancy are disqualified persons, a court in possession proceedings may order that the interest in the property of the tenants who are disqualified be transferred to a tenant or tenants who are not disqualified, instead of making an order for possession.
	Subsection (6) inserts a new Case 10A into Part 1 of Schedule 15 of the Rent Act 1977. A court may order possession of a dwelling house let on, or subject to, a protected or statutory tenancy if the Secretary of State has given notice in writing to a landlord that a tenant or other adult person who is occupying the dwelling house is disqualified from occupying the property as a result of their immigration status.
	Subsection (7) provides that the amendments made by section 41shall apply to those tenancies in existence prior to or subsequent to their coming into force.
Part 2: Access to Services Section 41: Order for possession of dwelling-house