Tenancy agreement from 27 May 2024 - Domestic abuse

Domestic abuse

6.1    You must not be violent to, harass, control, coerce, threaten, intimidate, or abuse (including physical, sexual, economic, psychological, emotional or other abuse) other members of your household or those that you are personally connected with. Section 2 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 states that two people are “personally connected” to each other if any of the following applies:

1. they are, or have been, married to each other
2. they are, or have been, civil partners of each other
3. they have agreed to marry one another (whether or not the agreement has been terminated)
4. they have entered into a civil partnership agreement (whether or not the agreement has been terminated)
5. they are, or have been, in an intimate personal relationship with each other
6. they each have, or there has been a time when they each have had, a parental relationship in relation to the same child (see subsection 2)
7. they are relatives.

6.2    In the case of such abuse perpetrated by one joint tenant against the other, we may enforce this agreement to prevent the perpetrator remaining in sole occupation of the home.

6.3    Paragraph 14.5 explains how we will deal with the situation if one joint tenant ends the tenancy, leaving another joint tenant in occupation.