The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 provides that every rental accommodation arrangement tenancy agreement and local authority tenancy agreement shall include a condition prohibiting a tenant from knowingly permitting a person to enter the dwelling concerned in breach of an excluding order under section 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997.
The 2009 Act requires the landlord under a rental accommodation arrangement to terminate the tenancy agreement on notification by the housing authority that a tenant has breached the aforementioned condition. The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides that a housing authority may issue a tenancy warning to a local authority tenant who breaches this condition.
The 2014 Act also provides that the authority may initiate Court proceedings for termination of a tenancy and repossession of a local authority dwelling where there has been a breach of the tenancy agreement. In addition, under Part 3 of the 2014 Act, dealing with tenant purchase, the condition outlined above is also attached as a condition to the sale of a local authority house to its tenant.
Active consideration is being given to the commencements of these legislative provisions in the context of the on-going phased implementation of the 2009 and 2014 Acts.