Deregulation Act 2015 its impact?

[mikeymack2002]

Looking for further information how this new bill will impact on several subjects.. It got RA in March this year I believe and became an Act shortly thereafter....

 

 

It will have an impact on various threads we advise on so what are your thoughts please?...

[mikeymack2002]

A note to admin..

 

 

If this is in the wrong section please move and advise thx....

[citizenB]

I think this is probably the right forum, MM

[mikeymack2002]

Having started to read in depth with this bill it looks very menacing. I looks like the MIB will be well up on this as well as part of the bill relates to Insurance (motor)

[legalistic]

I've read up this area for my own purposes but it would take a very long post to explain it all, and, although I've studied and had experience of the law, I am not a lawyer.No doubt articles will appear setting out the changes. The New Law Journal and Estates Gazette are both very good and will probably cover it.It's actually quite complicated because different provisions come in at different times and some are retrospective and some not. (My bible is the LexisNexis database which sets it all out very clearly.)Just three points: Firstly, from 1 Oct a s21 notice will only be valid for 6 months.Secondly there will be penalties if a LL does not supply an Energy Performance Certificate.Thirdly a LL will not be able to serve a s21 notice very early but it depends on whether it is an original or replacement tenancy.

[mikeymack2002]

Like I said this is going to have significant effects on many Acts or other, I think the quote was nearly 3,000 changes in total so a lot of new reading will be needed.

[legalistic]

Mikeymack2002, statute law is constantly being amended for all sorts of reasons: the need to incorporate EU law, changes to other statutes and judicial decisions. In the case of the latter, governments are always looking to see how a law works out in practice i.e. in the courts. If they don't like its effects or believe that the highest judges have misinterpreted it they make amendments accordingly. There is a constant interaction between the Ministry of Justice and case law. That is what's presently happening as regards landlord and tenant law.The constant stream of amendments is presumably why it is so hard to find up to date statute law. Legislation.gov.uk is meant to be up to date but never is, although it's speedy in posting new law. LexisNexis manages it superbly i.e. as quickly as is humanly possible. I don't know how they do it. But it's a subscription service.The entire Deregulation Act might require many changes to other legislation. But only a part of it refers to L and T. They are specific changes with very little ripple effect in my view. But it all still takes some reading and absorbing.The beauty of LexisNexis is that they write up the sections of a statute complete with amendments in hard brackets. At the end of a section there are notes relating to each sub-section which tell you when the said sub-section came or comes into force. They also give any relevant statutory instruments. They make it all as accessible as it can possibly be.