The Agricultural Tenancies (Requests for Landlord’s Consent or Variation of Terms) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Made: 27 February 2025

Laid before Senedd Cymru: 28 February 2025

Coming into force: 21 March 2025

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8A(7) of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995[^f00001], make the following Regulations.

PART 1 — Introductory

Title and coming into force

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• (1) The title of these Regulations is the Agricultural Tenancies (Requests for Landlord’s Consent or Variation of Terms) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.

• (2) These Regulations come into force on 21 March 2025.

PART 2 — Amendments to the Agricultural Tenancies (Requests for Landlord’s Consent or Variation of Terms) (Wales) Regulations 2024

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• (1) The Agricultural Tenancies (Requests for Landlord’s Consent or Variation of Terms) (Wales) Regulations 2024[^f00002] are amended as follows.

• (2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

• (a) in the Welsh text, at the end of paragraph (f) in the definition of “cymorth ariannol perthnasol”, insert “neu”;

• (b) in paragraph (c) in the definition of “statutory duty”, for “retained direct EU legislation” substitute “assimilated direct legislation”.

• (3) In regulation 3 (request for landlord’s consent or variation of terms), in paragraph (8), for “2 months” substitute “4 months”.

• (4) In regulation 4 (awards or determinations by the arbitrator), in paragraph (2)(d), after “award” insert “or determination”.

Signed

Huw Irranca-Davies — Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers — 27 February 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations correct errors in the Agricultural Tenancies (Requests for Landlord’s Consent or Variation of Terms) (Wales) Regulations 2024 (“the 2024 Regulations”).

Part 1 contains introductory provisions.

Part 2 contains the correcting amendments to the 2024 Regulations.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1995 c. 8. Section 8A was inserted by section 24(4) of the Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 4).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2024/797 (W. 126).