england-and-wales landlord tenant tenancy-rules
Where in statute are the grounds of section 8 eviction notices spelled out?
<p>I'd like to find the original statutory source for all of the respective parameters of different section 8 eviction grounds, for assured shorthold tenancies in England &amp; Wales.</p>
<p>I read <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/section/8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">section 8</a> of the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/contents" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Housing Act 1988</a> on legislation.gov, but surprisingly to no avail.</p>

<p>Section 8 of the Housing Act 1988 provides that</p>
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<p>(2) The court shall not make an order for possession on any of the grounds in <strong><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/schedule/2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Schedule 2 to this Act</a></strong> unless that ground and particulars of it are specified in the notice under this section; but the grounds specified in such a notice may be altered or added to with the leave of the court.</p>
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<p>Section 7 of the same Act also provides that</p>
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<p>(1) The court shall not make an order for possession of a dwelling-house let on an assured tenancy except on one or more of the grounds set out in Schedule 2 to this Act; [...]</p>
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<p>User xngtng's answer already answers the question, but to add a little more detail:</p>
<p>The full list of grounds appears in <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/schedule/2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Schedule 2</a> to the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/contents" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Housing Act 1988</a>. The Schedule's title is &quot;Grounds for Possession of Dwelling-houses let on Assured Tenancies&quot;.</p>
<p>Most of the rules associated with those grounds are contained in section 7 of the Act (&quot;Orders for possession&quot;) and the eponymous section 8 (&quot;Notice of proceedings for possession&quot;). Sections 8A, 9, 9A, 10A, 11 and 12 add further details relating to particular grounds, and there are occasional references to the Schedule elsewhere in the Act too.</p>
