SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2E+W Grounds for Possession of Dwelling-Houses Let underSecure Tenancies

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Sch. 2 excluded (8.5.2017) by The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions to the Mayor) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/470), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 9

Part IE+W Grounds on which Court may Order Possession if it Considers it Reasonable

[F1 Ground 2AE+W

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 2 Ground 2A and cross-heading inserted (4.2.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 145; S.I. 1997/66, art. 2 (subject to savings in Sch.)

The dwelling-house was occupied (whether alone or with others) by [F2a married couple, a couple who are civil partners of each other] F3... [F4or a couple living together as if they were [F5a married couple or] civil partners] and—

(a)one or both of the partners is a tenant of the dwelling-house,

(b)one partner has left because of violence or threats of violence by the other towards—

(i)that partner, or

(ii)a member of the family of that partner who was residing with that partner immediately before the partner left, and

(c)the court is satisfied that the partner who has left is unlikely to return.]

Textual Amendments

F2Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Ground 2A substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 81, 263(2), Sch. 8 para. 33(a); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch.

F3Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Ground 2A omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 10(6)(a)

F4Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Ground 2A inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 81, 263(2), Sch. 8 para. 33(b); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch.

F5Words in Sch. 2 Pt. I Ground 2A inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 10(6)(b)