Legislation – Renters’ Rights Act 2025
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Part 4Enforcement
Chapter 2Enforcement authorities
112General duties and powers of lead enforcement authority
(1)
A lead enforcement authority must oversee the operation of the provisions for which it is responsible.
(2)
A lead enforcement authority must provide—
(a)
relevant local authorities, and
(b)
the public in England,
with information and advice about the operation of the provisions for which it is responsible, in such form and manner as the lead enforcement authority considers appropriate.
(3)
A lead enforcement authority may disclose information to a relevant local authority for the purposes of enabling that authority to determine whether there has been a breach of, or an offence under, the provisions for which the lead enforcement authority is responsible.
(4)
A lead enforcement authority may issue guidance to relevant local authorities about the exercise of their functions under any of the provisions for which it is responsible.
(5)
Relevant local authorities must have regard to any guidance issued under subsection (4).
(6)
A lead enforcement authority must keep under review and from time to time advise the Secretary of State about the following—
(a)
the operation of the landlord provisions for which it is responsible;
(b)
social and commercial developments relating to tenancies in England, other than tenancies of social housing, so far as it considers those developments relevant to the provisions for which it is responsible.
(7)
The Secretary of State may give a lead enforcement authority directions as to the exercise of any of its functions.
(8)
A direction may relate to all or particular kinds of relevant local authorities and may make different provision for different purposes.
(9)
In this section—
“relevant local authority” means—
(a)
a local housing authority, or
(b)
a county council in England which is not a local housing authority;
“social housing” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008;
“tenancies” includes licences to occupy.