Legislation – Renters’ Rights Act 2025
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Part 2Residential landlords
Chapter 3The Private Rented Sector Database
Access to and use of information in database
86Access to the database
(1)
The Secretary of State may by regulations—
(a)
specify the information contained in active landlord and dwelling entries in the database, and in entries made in the database under section 83, which the database operator is to make available to the public,
(b)
make provision requiring an active landlord entry and an entry made under section 83 in respect of the same person to be linked,
(c)
in the case of an entry made by a local housing authority in respect of a person under section 83—
(i)
specify the period after which information contained in the entry is to be made available to the public, which must be no less than 21 days beginning with the day on which the entry is made,
(ii)
make provision for the person to be notified by the local housing authority of the period for the purpose of making representations to the authority about any errors in information contained in the entry, and
(iii)
specify the circumstances in which information contained in such an entry is to cease to be available to the public, and
(d)
specify the manner and form in which information is to be made available to the public by the database operator under the regulations.
(2)
The database operator must give access to information in the database to the following—
(a)
lead enforcement authorities,
(b)
local housing authorities,
(c)
local weights and measures authorities in England,
(d)
mayoral combined authorities, as defined by section 107A(8) of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, and
(e)
the Greater London Authority.
(3)
If the Secretary of State is not the database operator, the database operator must give access to information in the database to the Secretary of State.