The Abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Rights (Wales) Act 2018 gained Royal Assent on 24 January 2018.
The Welsh Government has published an Information for Tenants document explaining the effect of the legislation (attached).
Landlords have two months from the date of Royal Assent or until 17 March which ever is the sooner, to provide information about the Act to all relevant tenants*.
The requirements on landlords are set out in section 8 of the Abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Rights (Wales) Act 2018. Please familiarise yourselves with these requirements.
Social Landlords need to provide to relevant tenants such of the information they consider relevant to them. The information must though, include the date of abolition on newly let properties (24 March 2018) and the date of final abolition (26 January 2019). The information document attached may be used if appropriate.
Landlords must also have regard to the likely needs and characteristics of the tenants to whom the information is to be provided, and consider whether it is appropriate to provide the information in an alternative manner.
A landlord must also publish the information on its website and ensure a copy of the information is available for inspection (without charge) in an appropriate place.
Alternative language versions (Polish, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish and Somalian) of the Welsh Government information document, and an easy read version, will shortly be available on the Welsh Government website at gov.wales/righttobuy
Information will also have to be provided to prospective tenants. Please refer to section 8 of the Act for more details.
Further information regarding the Act can be found at:
http://www.senedd.assembly.wales/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=17260
If you have any queries please contact the Right to Buy Bill team at BilDiddymurHawliBrynu.AbolitionofRighttoBuyBill@gov.wales
English:The Abolition of the Right to Buy
Roedd Deddf Diddymu'r Hawl i Brynu a Hawliau Cysylltiedig (Cymru) 2018 wedi derbyn Cydsyniad Brenhinol ar 24 Ionawr 2018.
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi cyhoeddi dogfen Wybodaeth i Denantiaid sy'n egluro effaith y ddeddfwriaeth (y ddogfen sydd wedi'i hatodi).
Mae gan landlordiaid ddau fis ar ôl dyddiad y Cydsyniad Brenhinol, neu hyd at 17 Mawrth pa un bynnag sy'n gyntaf, i ddarparu gwybodaeth am y Ddeddf i'w holl denantiaid perthnasol*.
Mae'r gofynion ar landlordiaid wedi'u nodi yn adran 8 o Ddeddf Diddymu'r Hawl i Brynu a Hawliau Cysylltiedig (Cymru) 2018. Gofynnwn ichi roi o'ch amser i ymgyfarwyddo â'r gofynion hyn.
Rhaid i landlordiaid cymdeithasol ddarparu unrhyw ran o'r wybodaeth sy'n berthnasol yn eu barn nhw i'w holl denantiaid perthnasol. Ond, rhaid i'r wybodaeth gynnwys dyddiad diddymu eiddo sydd newydd ei osod (24 Mawrth 2018), a'r dyddiad y bydd y diddymiad terfynol yn dod i rym (26 Ionawr 2019). Gallai'r ddogfen wybodaeth sydd wedi'i hatodi gael ei defnyddio os yw'n briodol.
Rhaid i landlordiaid hefyd ystyried anghenion a phriodoleddau tebygol y tenantiaid sy'n derbyn yr wybodaeth - gan roi ystyriaeth i'r modd y mae'r wybodaeth yn cael ei darparu, ac a fyddai'n well ei darparu mewn modd arall.
Yn ogystal, rhaid i'r landlord gyhoeddi'r wybodaeth ar ei wefan a sicrhau bod copi o'r wybodaeth ar gael i'w harchwilio (yn ddi-dâl) mewn man priodol.
Mae fersiynau o ddogfen wybodaeth Llywodraeth Cymru ar gael mewn ieithoedd eraill (Pwyleg, Arabeg, Portiwgaleg, Sbaeneg a Somaleg), a bydd fersiwn hawdd ei ddeall ar gael cyn hir hefyd. Mae'r fersiynau hyn ar gael ar wefan Llywodraeth Cymru yn llyw.cymru/hawlibrynu
Bydd rhaid darparu gwybodaeth i ddarpar denantiaid hefyd. Cewch ragor o fanylion yn adran 8 o'r Ddeddf.
I gael rhagor o wybodaeth am y Ddeddf, ewch i:
http://www.senedd.cynulliad.cymru/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=17260
Os oes gennych unrhyw gwestiynau, mae croeso ichi gysylltu â'r tîm sy'n delio â Bil yr Hawl i Brynu drwy e-bostio: BilDiddymurHawliBrynu.AbolitionofRighttoBuyBill@llyw.cymru
*Mae'r Ddeddf yn diffinio "tenant perthnasol" yn adran 8(8)(c)
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