- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Regulated 1 of 12 obligations carry a criminal penalty. 11 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Landlord11
Any Person1
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92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.art004
Tenant to be given notice regarding certain matters: grant of tenancy
Regulated
- Provide prescribed notice to tenant within 28 days of granting tenancyLandlord
s.art004
Tenant to be given notice regarding certain matters: variation of certain terms
Regulated
- Give tenant written notice within 28 days of changing a tenancy termLandlord
s.art005
Tenant to be provided with a rent receipt for payment in cash
Regulated
- Provide a written rent receipt for cash payments from tenantsLandlord
s.art005
Requirements relating to tenancy deposits
Regulated
- Protect tenancy deposits in an approved scheme and provide required information to tenantsLandlord
s.art007
Landlord's duties to repair
Regulated
- Keep your rental property and its installations in good repairLandlord
s.art008
Care of premises by tenant
Regulated
- Take proper care of your rental property and keep it in good decorative orderAny Person
s.art009
Landlord's obligations under private tenancy of parts of building
Regulated
- Maintain and ensure safety of common areas used by tenantsLandlord
s.art011
Landlord’s duties: fire, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms
Regulated
- Keep fire, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in working orderLandlord
s.art012
Entry and inspection of premises
Regulated
- Make good any damage caused during entry and inspectionLandlord
s.art033
Landlord's application to have dwelling-house inspected
Regulated
- Apply for inspection of pre-1956 rental properties within 28 daysLandlord
s.art050
Rent in excess of rent limit to be irrecoverable by landlord
Regulated
- Do not record irrecoverable rent as arrears and delete if requestedLandlord
93 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.art001
Title and commencement
s.art002
General interpretation
s.art003
Meaning of “private tenancy”
s.art004
Tenant to be given notice regarding certain matters
s.art004
Continued failure by landlord to provide notice under Article 4A or 4B after conviction or fixed penalty
s.art005
Tenancy deposit schemes
s.art005
Rent decreases
s.art005
Restriction on frequency of rent increases
s.art005
Requirement to give written notice of increase
s.art005
Continued failure by landlord to provide rent receipt after conviction or fixed penalty
s.art005
Controlled tenancies: defence to offences under Articles 5 and 5ZA
s.art005
Tenancy deposit limit of 1 month’s rent
s.art005
Breach of tenancy deposit limit: recoverability of excess
s.art006
Application of Articles 7 to 11
s.art010
General qualifications on landlord's duties
s.art011
Standard of repair and knowledge of disrepair
s.art011
Application of Articles 11B to 11F
s.art011
Tenant’s duties: fire, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms
s.art011
Landlord’s duties: private tenancy of part of a building
s.art011
General qualification on landlord’s duties
s.art011
Knowledge of disrepair
s.art011
Energy efficiency of dwelling-houses let under a private tenancy
s.art011
Private tenancy energy efficiency regulations: power to create offences
s.art011
Electrical safety standards for dwelling-houses let under a private tenancy
s.art011
Electrical safety standards regulations: power to create an offence
s.art011
Electrical safety standards regulations: other enforcement
s.art013
Tenancies to be for a term certain
s.art014
Length of notice to quit : by landlords
s.art014
Length of notice to quit: by tenants
s.art015
Interpretation: Part III
s.art016
Application of this Part
s.art017
Determining fitness for human habitation
s.art018
Notice of unfitness
s.art019
Notice of disrepair
s.art020
Matters to be taken into consideration by appropriate district council
s.art021
Consultation with the Executive
s.art022
Appeal against notice of unfitness or notice of disrepair
s.art023
Operative date of notice of unfitness or notice of disrepair
s.art024
Offence of failing to comply with notice of unfitness or notice of disrepair
s.art025
Enforcement of notice of unfitness or notice of disrepair
s.art026
Power to require payment for enforcement action
s.art027
Power to enter dwelling-houses
s.art028
Obstruction
s.art029
Repairs grants
s.art030
Interpretation: Part IV
s.art031
Meaning of “prescribed dwelling-house”
s.art032
Interpretation: Chapter II
s.art034
Landlord's application: ancillary provisions
s.art035
Tenant's application to have dwelling-house inspected
s.art036
Functions of the appropriate district council
s.art037
Appeal to county court
s.art038
Cessation of certificate of fitness
s.art039
Interpretation: Chapter III
s.art040
Tenancies subject to rent control
s.art041
The rent officer and rent assessment committees
s.art042
Determination of an appropriate rent
s.art043
Procedure after determination
s.art044
Consideration by a rent assessment committee
s.art045
Change of circumstances
s.art045
Power to amend Articles 42 to 45
s.art046
The register of rents
s.art047
Removal of tenancies from the register of rents
s.art048
The rent limit
s.art049
Increase of rent
s.art051
Recoupment of sums paid in excess of rent limit
s.art052
Recoupment where landlord in default
s.art053
Recoupment of rates,
s.art054
Amounts attributable to services
s.art055
Review of registered rents
s.art056
Tenancies which are protected tenancies
s.art057
No further protected tenancies
s.art058
Premises with a business use
s.art059
Assignment and sub-letting
s.art060
Unlawful eviction, etc.
s.art061
Restriction of statutory tenancy by succession
s.art062
Provision of directions and guidance to district councils
s.art063
Publication of information to assist landlords and tenants
s.art064
Collection of information about tenancies
s.art064
Disclosure of information for purposes of Parts 2 to 4
s.art064
Unauthorised disclosure of information
s.art065
Information as to ownership of dwelling-houses
s.art065
Registration of landlords
s.art066
Service of notices on landlord's agents
s.art067
Method of serving certain documents
s.art068
Prosecution of offences
s.art068
Fixed penalty for certain offences
s.art069
Defective premises
s.art070
Prohibition of agreements excluding Order
s.art071
Application to Crown property
s.art072
Regulations
s.art073
Further provision
s.art074
Minor and consequential amendments
s.art075
Repeals
Schedules
Schedules
1 of 30 shown
s.sch002
(1) For the purposes of considering whether a rent determined...
Regulated
- Fail to give information to rent assessment committeeLandlord
29 other schedules
s.sch001
(1) The Department shall appoint a person to act as...
s.sch001
In addition to the functions conferred on the rent officer...
s.sch001
The Department shall draw up and revise a panel of...
s.sch001
(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the number of...
s.sch001
There shall be paid to the rent officer and to...
s.sch001
The Department may make available to the rent officer and...
s.sch002
Where, within the period specified in paragraph 1(1)(b), or such...
s.sch002
(1) The rent officer shall submit to the rent assessment...
s.sch002
The committee shall make such inquiry (if any) as it...
s.sch003
For the purposes of Article 53, the amount of rates...
s.sch003
In this Schedule “the relevant rating period”, in relation to...
s.sch003
The amount of the rates for any rental period which...
s.sch003
(1) On the making by the Department of Finance and...
s.sch003
(1) If as a result of the alteration of the...
s.sch003
In computing the rates for any rental period for the...
s.sch004
In Schedule 11 (matters requiring to be registered in the...
s.sch004
In Article 94 (subletting or assignment)– (a) in paragraph (1),...
s.sch004
In Part II of Schedule 9 (other amendments of the...
s.sch004
In Schedule 3 (tribunals referred to in Article 9(4) of...
s.sch004
In Article 28(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “rack rent”,...
s.sch004
In Article 60 (restriction on grants for works already begun),...
s.sch004
For the heading of Part II substitute– “ PROTECTED AND...
s.sch004
In Article 4(2) (statutory tenants and tenancies), omit the words...
s.sch004
In Article 49 (prohibition of premiums and loans)–
s.sch004
In Article 73A(1) (method of serving certain documents), for the...
s.sch004
In Article 75(1) (application of Order to Crown property), omit...
s.sch004
(1) Part I of Schedule 4 (grounds for possession of...
s.sch004
In Article 41(3) (repair notices), after “Executive” insert “ shall...
s.sch004
In Article 92(1) (protected shorthold tenancies), after “this Order” insert...
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