Renters’ Rights Act 2025
Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (2025 c. 26)
- Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (2025 c. 26)
- Part 1 Tenancy reform
- Chapter 1 Assured tenancies
- End of certain kinds of assured tenancy
- 1 Assured tenancies to be periodic with rent period not exceeding a month
- 2 Abolition of assured shorthold tenancies
- Grounds for possession
- 3 Changes to grounds for possession
- 4 Possession for anti-social behaviour: relevant factors
- 5 Form of notice of proceedings for possession
- Rent and other terms
- 6 Statutory procedure for increases of rent
- 7 Challenging amount or increase of rent
- 8 Prohibition of rent in advance after lease entered into (except initial rent)
- 9 Prohibition of rent in advance before lease entered into
- 10 Repayment of rent paid for days after end of tenancy
- 11 Right to request permission to keep a pet
- Duties of landlords etc
- 12 Duty of landlord and contractor to give statement of terms etc
- 13 Other duties
- 14 Landlords acting through others
- Landlords etc: financial penalties and offences
- 15 Landlords etc: financial penalties and offences
- 16 Financial penalties: procedure, appeals and enforcement
- Landlords etc: supplementary
- 17 Duties of landlords etc, penalties and offences: interpretation
- 18 No criminal liability of the Crown under Part 1 of 1988 Act
- 19 Guarantor not liable for rent payable after tenant’s death
- Other changes
- 20 Notices to quit by tenants under assured tenancies: timing
- 21 Notices to quit by tenants under assured tenancies: other
- 22 Limitation on obligation to pay removal expenses
- 23 Assured agricultural occupancies: grounds for possession
- 24 Assured agricultural occupancies: opting out etc
- 25 Accommodation for homeless people: duties of local authority
- 26 Tenancy deposit requirements
- 27 Tenant fees
- Other amendments
- 28 Liability of tenants under assured tenancies for council tax
- 29 Other amendments
- Powers of Secretary of State
- 30 Powers of Secretary of State in connection with Chapter 1
- Chapter 2 Tenancies that cannot be assured tenancies
- 31 Long tenancies and financial services products
- 32 Accommodation for homeless people or students
- Chapter 3 Discrimination in the rental market: England
- Discrimination and discriminatory terms: children and benefits status
- 33 Discrimination relating to children
- 34 Discrimination relating to benefits status
- 35 Discriminatory terms in a tenancy relating to children or benefits status
- 36 Terms in superior leases relating to children or benefits status
- 37 Terms in mortgages relating to children or benefits status
- 38 Terms in insurance contracts relating to children or benefits status
- Discrimination and discriminatory terms: power to protect others
- 39 Power of the Secretary of State to protect others
- Discrimination: financial penalties
- 40 Financial penalties for breach of anti-discrimination provisions
- Supplementary
- 41 No prohibition on taking income into account
- 42 Interpretation of Chapter 3
- Chapter 4 Discrimination in the rental market: Wales
- Prohibitions of discrimination
- 43 Discrimination relating to children or benefits status: Welsh language
- 44 Discrimination relating to children or benefits status: English language
- 45 Amendment of short title of Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019
- Discriminatory terms
- 46 Amendments of Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 regarding discrimination
- Supplementary
- 47 Power of Welsh Ministers to protect others
- 48 Power of Secretary of State to protect others
- 49 Regulations
- Chapter 5 Discrimination in the rental market: Scotland
- Discrimination and discriminatory terms: children and benefits status
- 50 Discrimination relating to children or benefits status
- 51 Terms in standard securities relating to children or benefits status
- 52 Terms in insurance contracts relating to children or benefits status
- Discrimination and discriminatory terms: power to protect others
- 53 Power of Scottish Ministers to protect others
- 54 Power of Secretary of State to protect others
- Supplementary
- 55 Interpretation of Chapter 5
- Chapter 6 Stating the proposed rent and rental bidding
- 56 Requirement to state rent and to avoid rental bidding
- 57 Financial penalties
- Chapter 7 Miscellaneous
- 58 Penalties for unlawful eviction or harassment of occupier
- 59 Abandoned premises under assured shorthold tenancies
- 60 Remedying of hazards occurring in dwelling-houses in England
- 61 Remedying of hazards occurring in accommodation in England occupied under licence
- 62 Student accommodation that is not an HMO
- Part 2 Residential landlords
- Chapter 1 Meaning of “residential landlord”
- 63 Meaning of “residential landlord”
- Chapter 2 Landlord redress schemes
- Landlord redress schemes
- 64 Landlord redress schemes
- 65 Approval and designation of landlord redress schemes
- 66 Financial penalties
- 67 Offences
- 68 Decision under a landlord redress scheme may be made enforceable as if it were a court order
- 69 Landlord redress schemes: no Crown status
- Guidance
- 70 Guidance for scheme administrator and local housing authority
- Interpretation
- 71 Interpretation of Chapter 2
- Related amendments
- 72 Housing activities under social rented sector scheme
- 73 Other amendments connected with landlord redress schemes
- 74 Local Commissioners’ investigation of complaints by persons who are not tenants
- Chapter 3 The Private Rented Sector Database
- The database and the database operator
- 75 The database
- 76 The database operator
- Landlord and dwelling entries
- 77 Making entries in the database
- 78 Requirement to keep active entries up-to-date
- 79 Circumstances in which active entries become inactive and vice versa
- 80 Verification, correction and removal of entries
- 81 Fees for landlord and dwelling entries
- Marketing, advertising and letting
- 82 Restrictions on marketing, advertising and letting dwellings
- Entries relating to banning orders, offences, financial penalties, etc.
- 83 Entries relating to banning orders, offences, financial penalties, etc.
- Further duties of database operator
- 84 Allocation of unique identifiers
- 85 Other duties
- Access to and use of information in database
- 86 Access to the database
- 87 Disclosure by database operator etc
- 88 Use of information from the database
- Removal of entries
- 89 Removal of entries from database
- Enforcement
- 90 Restriction on gaining possession
- 91 Financial penalties
- 92 Offences
- Final provisions
- 93 Power to direct database operator and local housing authorities
- 94 Entries under section 83: minor and consequential amendments
- 95 Different provision for different purposes: joint landlords
- 96 Interpretation of Chapter 3
- Chapter 4 Part 2: supplementary provision
- 97 Financial assistance by Secretary of State
- 98 Rent repayment orders for offences under the Housing Act 1988 and sections 67 and 92 of this Act
- 99 Interpretation of Part 2
- Part 3 Decent homes standard
- 100 Decent homes standard
- 101 The standard of MOD accommodation
- Part 4 Enforcement
- Chapter 1 Sanctions
- 102 Financial penalties
- 103 Rent repayment orders: liability of landlords and superior landlords
- 104 Rent repayment orders: liability of directors etc
- 105 Unlicensed HMOs and houses: offences
- 106 Service of improvement notices on landlords and licensors
- Chapter 2 Enforcement authorities
- 107 Enforcement by local housing authorities: general duty
- 108 Enforcement by local housing authorities: duty to notify
- 109 Enforcement by county councils: duty to notify
- 110 Duty to report
- 111 Lead enforcement authority
- 112 General duties and powers of lead enforcement authority
- 113 Enforcement by the lead enforcement authority
- Chapter 3 Investigatory powers
- Investigatory powers under this Act
- 114 Power of local housing authority to require information from relevant person
- 115 Power of local housing authority to require information from any person
- 116 Enforcement of power to require information from any person
- 117 Limitation on use of information provided under section 115
- 118 Business premises: entry without warrant
- 119 Duties where occupiers are on business premises entered without warrant
- 120 Business premises: warrant authorising entry
- 121 Business premises: entry under warrant
- 122 Power to require production of documents following entry
- 123 Power to seize documents following entry
- 124 Access to seized documents
- 125 Appeal against detention of documents
- 126 Suspected residential tenancy: entry without warrant
- 127 Duties where occupiers are on residential premises entered without warrant
- 128 Suspected residential tenancy: warrant authorising entry
- 129 Suspected residential tenancy: entry under warrant
- 130 Powers of accompanying persons
- 131 Offences
- 132 Investigatory powers: interpretation
- Amendments
- 133 Additional powers of seizure under Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001
- 134 Use by local housing authority of certain information
- 135 Investigatory powers under the Housing Act 2004
- 136 Client money protection schemes: investigatory powers of local authorities
- Part 5 General
- 137 Interpretation
- 138 Crown application
- 139 Application to Parliament
- 140 Regulations
- 141 Power of Welsh Ministers to make consequential provision
- 142 Power of Scottish Ministers to make consequential provision
- 143 Power of Secretary of State to make consequential provision
- 144 Extent
- 145 Commencement
- 146 Existing assured tenancies to continue as section 4A assured tenancies
- 147 Fixed term assured tenancy and statutory periodic tenancy to be treated as single assured tenancy
- 148 Transitional provision
- 149 Short title
- Schedules
- Schedule 1 Changes to grounds for possession
- Introductory
- Amendments of Ground 1: occupation by landlord or family
- New ground for sale of dwelling-house
- New ground for possession after rent-to-buy agreement
- Amendments of Ground 2: sale by mortgagee
- New ground for possession when superior lease ends
- New grounds for possession in cases where there is a superior lease
- Repeal of Ground 3: holiday accommodation
- Amendments of Ground 4: student accommodation
- New ground for possession of student accommodation for occupation by students
- Amendment of Ground 5: ministers of religion
- New ground for possession for occupation by agricultural worker
- New ground for possession for occupation by person who meets employment requirements
- Ground 16 to be renumbered as Ground 5C and to be a mandatory ground for possession
- New ground for possession for end of employment requirements
- New ground for possession for occupation as supported accommodation
- New grounds for possession of dwelling-house occupied as supported accommodation
- New ground for possession for tenancy granted for homelessness duty
- New ground for possession of stepping stone accommodation
- Amendments of Ground 6: redevelopment
- New ground for possession of alternative accommodation provided during redevelopment
- New ground for possession to allow compliance with enforcement action
- Amendments of Ground 7: death of tenant
- Amendments of Ground 8: rent arrears
- Power to amend Schedule 2 and new interpretation provisions
- Schedule 2 Amendments relating to Chapter 1 of Part 1
- Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951
- Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1973
- Housing Act 1985
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
- Agricultural Holdings Act 1986
- Housing Act 1988
- Local Government and Housing Act 1989
- Housing Act 1996
- Capital Allowances Act 2001
- Police Reform Act 2002
- Homelessness Act 2002
- Finance Act 2003
- Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003
- Housing Act 2004
- Housing and Regeneration Act 2008
- Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008
- Charities Act 2011
- Localism Act 2011
- Deregulation Act 2015
- Immigration Act 2016
- Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1)
- Homelessness Reduction Act 2017
- Schedule 3 Amendments connected with landlord redress schemes
- Local Government Act 1974
- Housing Act 1996
- Government of Wales Act 1998
- Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005
- Localism Act 2011
- Building Safety Act 2022
- Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024
- Schedule 4 Decent homes standard
- Part 1 Amendments of Housing Act 2004
- Part 2 Amendments of other Acts
- Land Compensation Act 1973
- Housing Act 1985
- Housing and Regeneration Act 2008
- Housing and Planning Act 2016
- Tenant Fees Act 2019
- Schedule 5 Financial penalties
- Notice of intent
- Right to make representations
- Final notice
- Withdrawal or amendment of notice
- Appeals
- Recovery of financial penalty
- Proceeds of financial penalties
- Schedule 6 Transitional provision
- Part 1 Application of Chapter 1 of Part 1 to existing tenancies
- Tenancies which become periodic on the commencement date
- Section 1: start of deemed rent period for existing tenancies
- Section 2: claim form for section 21 possession proceedings already requested
- Section 2: claim form for section 21 possession proceedings not already requested
- Section 3(2)(g): saving of section 7(7) in relation to tenancies where fixed term ends before commencement date
- Section 6: no effect on rent increases before commencement date
- Sections 12, 13 and 15: provision of information in writing
- Section 15: no liability in respect of conduct before commencement date
- Section 20: no effect on notice to quit given before commencement date
- Section 24: existing opt-out notices for assured agricultural occupancies
- Section 26: tenancy deposits
- Section 27: tenant fees
- Schedule 1: student accommodation ground
- Schedule 1: stepping stone accommodation ground
- Schedule 1: redevelopment ground
- Claim form for section 8 possession proceedings already requested
- Claim form for section 8 possession proceedings not already requested
- Interpretation
- Part 2 Existing instruments which permit or require letting etc
- Key definitions
- Saving for existing powers to vary
- Relevant pre-application instruments that permit letting on tenancies that are no longer possible
- Relevant pre-application instruments that permit letting on tenancies that continue to be possible
- Relevant pre-application instruments that require letting on tenancies that are no longer possible
- Relevant pre-application instruments that require letting on tenancies that continue to be possible
- Pre-commencement s.106 obligations with provision relating to letting on terms that are no longer possible
- Pre-commencement s.106 obligations with provision relating to letting on terms that continue to be possible
- Requirements under the Community Infrastructure Regulations 2010
- Leases which cannot be returned at end of term free of sub-lease
- Application to agreements etc relating to leases, mortgage arrangements or contracts of insurance
- Application to sub-letting
- Application in certain circumstances
- Power to disapply or modify this Part
- Meaning of “permitting” letting
- Interpretation
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