Legislation – Renters’ Rights Act 2025
Part 1
Tenancy reform
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
3 Changes to grounds for possession
4 Possession for anti-social behaviour: relevant factors
5 Form of notice of proceedings for possession
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
12 Duty of landlord and contractor to give statement of terms etc
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
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
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
28 Liability of tenants under assured tenancies for council tax
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
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
46 Amendments of Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 regarding discrimination
47 Power of Welsh Ministers to protect others
48 Power of Secretary of State to protect others
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
55 Interpretation of Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Stating the proposed rent and rental bidding
56 Requirement to state rent and to avoid rental bidding
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
65 Approval and designation of landlord redress schemes
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
70 Guidance for scheme administrator and local housing authority
71 Interpretation of Chapter 2
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
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
Access to and use of information in database
87 Disclosure by database operator etc
88 Use of information from the database
89 Removal of entries from database
90 Restriction on gaining possession
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
Part 3
Decent homes standard
101 The standard of MOD accommodation
Part 4
Enforcement
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
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
132 Investigatory powers: interpretation
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
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
146 Existing assured tenancies to continue as section 4A assured tenancies
SCHEDULES
Schedule 1 Changes to grounds for possession
Schedule 2 Amendments relating to Chapter 1 of Part 1
Schedule 3 Amendments connected with landlord redress schemes
Schedule 4 Decent homes standard
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Part 5General
137Interpretation
In this Act—
“lease” includes any tenancy;
“local housing authority” (except in section 47) means a district council, a county council in England for an area for which there is no district council, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London (in its capacity as a local authority) or the Council of the Isles of Scilly;
“the 1988 Act” means the Housing Act 1988.