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Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Prosecution 3 of 10 obligations carry a fine up to £1,000. 7 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Landlord8 Any Person1

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Landlord — also bound by 224 other Acts

Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 74 duties

Housing Act 1985 55 duties

Housing Act 1996 30 duties

The Service Charges (Consultation Requirements) (England) Regulations 2003 27 duties

The Service Charges (Consultation Requirements) (Wales) Regulations 2004 26 duties

Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 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.012 Requirement to notify local authority of proceedings for possession Regulated

Notify the council when you start possession proceedingsLandlord

s.035 Rent agreements: special provisions following conversion. Regulated

Lodge rent agreements with rent officer and serve copy on tenantLandlord

s.057 The rent limit. Regulated

Provide tenant with rent history statement on requestLandlord

s.065 References of contracts to the First-tier Tribunal and obtaining by it of information. Prosecution

Fail to provide information requested by First-tier TribunalLandlord

Fine up to £1,000

s.079 Rent book to be provided. Regulated

Provide a rent book to tenants paying weekly rent under Part VII contractsLandlord

s.089 Avoidance of requirements for advance payment of rent in certain cases. Prosecution

Impose unlawful advance rent requirementLandlord

Fine up to £1,000

s.101 Landlord’s consent to work. Regulated

Get landlord's written consent before carrying out certain workAny Person

s.113 Rent book to be provided. Regulated

Provide a rent book for weekly tenanciesLandlord

124 other provisions — procedural and definitional

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s.001 Protected tenancies.

s.002 Tenancies excepted from definition of “protected tenancy”.

s.003 Statutory tenants and tenancies.

s.003 Statutory tenants and tenancies: further provision as to succession.

s.003 Succession after the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 comes into force

s.004 No protected or statutory tenancy where landlord’s interest belongs to Crown.

s.005 No protected or statutory tenancy where landlord’s interest belongs to local authority, etc.

s.006 No protected tenancy where landlord’s interest belongs to resident landlord.

s.007 Rateable value and the appropriate day.

s.008 Regulated tenancies.

s.009 Short tenancies.

s.010 Premises with business use.

s.011 Grounds for possession of certain dwelling-houses.

s.012 Extended discretion of court in claims for possession of certain dwelling-houses.

s.013 Effect of tenancy being short tenancy.

s.014 Conditions applying to landlord’s right to recovery of possession.

s.015 Terms and conditions of statutory tenancies.

s.016 Payments demanded by statutory tenants as a condition of giving up possession.

s.017 Change of statutory tenant by agreement.

s.018 No pecuniary consideration to be required on change of tenant under s. 17.

s.019 Effect on sub-tenancies of determination of tenancy.

s.020 Effect on furnished sub-tenancy of determination of superior unfurnished tenancy.

s.021 Compensation for misrepresentation or concealment in Cases 7 and 8.

s.022 Unlawful eviction and harassment of occupier.

s.023 Prohibition of eviction without due process of law.

s.023 Excluded tenancies and occupancy rights.

s.024 Special provisions with respect to agricultural employees.

s.025 Interpretation.

s.026 Application to Crown.

s.027 Application to sheriff

s.028 Limit of rent during contractual periods.

s.029 Limit of rent during statutory periods

s.030 Rents under Regulated Tenancies

s.031 Adjustment, with respect to services and furniture, of recoverable rent for statutory periods before registration.

s.032 Notices of increase.

s.033 Limits on rent increases

s.034 Rent agreements.

s.036 Failure to comply with provisions of rent agreements.

s.037 Recovery from landlord of sums paid in excess of recoverable rent, etc.

s.037 Extension of time limits for recovery from landlord: cross-border mediation

s.038 Onus on landlord.

s.039 Rectification of rent books in light of determina-tion of recoverable rent.

s.040 Adjustment for differences in lengths of rental periods.

s.041 Regulations.

s.042 Interpretation of Part IV.

s.043 Registration areas and rent officers.

s.043 Rent registration service providers.

s.043 Supplementary provisions regarding rent registration service providers.

s.043 Rent registration service providers: restrictions on disclosure of information.

s.044 Private rented housing committees.

s.045 Register of rents.

s.046 Applications for registration of rents.

s.047 Certificates of fair rent.

s.048 Determination of fair rent.

s.049 Amount to be registered as rent.

s.049 Transitional applications: regulated tenancies

s.050 Effect of registration of rent.

s.051 Cancellation of registration of rent.

s.052 Cancellation at instance of landlord.

s.053 Regulations.

s.054 Interpretation of Part V.

s.055 Tenancies to which sections 55 to 59 apply.

s.056 Rents to be registrable under Part V.

s.058 Phasing of progression to registered rent.

s.059 Increase of rent without notice to quit.

s.060 Supplemental to sections 55 to 59.

s.061 Interpretation of Part VI.

s.062 Registration areas for purposes of Part VII.

s.063 Part VII contracts.

s.064 Dwelling-houses to which Part VII applies.

s.066 Powers of the First-tier Tribunal on reference of contracts.

s.066 Transitional references of Part VII contracts

s.067 Register of rents under Part VII contracts.

s.068 Reconsideration of rent after registration.

s.069 Effect of registration of rent.

s.070 Cancellation of entries in register at instance of landlord.

s.071 Notice to quit served after reference of contract to the First-tier Tribunal.

s.072 Application to the First-tier Tribunal for security of tenure where notice to quit is served.

s.073 Notices to quit served by owner-occupiers.

s.074 Reduction of period of notice on account of lessee’s default.

s.075 Power of First-tier Tribunal, in action for possession, to reduce period of notice to quit

s.076 Notice to quit relating to later Part VII contracts.

s.077 Jurisdiction of the First-tier Tribunal.

s.078 Publication of information.

s.080 Regulations.

s.081 Interpretation of Part VII.

s.082 Prohibition of premiums and loans on grant of protected tenancies.

s.083 Prohibition of premiums and loans on assignation of protected tenancies.

s.084 Power to charge premium on assignation of tenancy where premium lawfully charged on earlier assignation.

s.085 Prohibition of premiums on grant, etc. of Part VII contracts.

s.086 Excessive price for furniture to be treated as premium.

s.087 Punishment of attempts to obtain from prospective tenants excessive prices for furniture.

s.088 Recovery of premiums and loans unlawfully required or received.

s.089 Premiums: regulations

s.090 Interpretation of Part VIII.

s.091 Heritable securities to which Part IX applies.

s.092 Regulated heritable securities.

s.093 Powers of court to mitigate hardship.

s.094 Miscellaneous.

s.095 Release from rent regulation.

s.096 Provisions where tenant shares accommodation with landlord.

s.097 Provisions where tenant shares accommodation with persons other than landlord.

s.098 Application of Part VII to tenancies falling within section 6.

s.099 Certain sublettings not to exclude any part of sublessor’s premises from protection under the Act.

s.100 Obligation to notify sublettings of dwelling-houses let on or subject to protected or statutory tenancies.

s.101 Discriminatory terms relating to children or benefits status

s.102 Jurisdiction.

s.103 Application to sheriff.

s.104 Rules as to procedure.

s.105 Powers of local authorities for the purposes of giving information.

s.106 Consent of tenant.

s.107 Prosecution of offences.

s.108 Service of notices on landlord’s agents.

s.109 Rents of subsidised private houses.

s.110 Restriction on sequestration for rent.

s.111 Implied condition in all protected tenancies.

s.112 Minimum length of notice to quit.

s.114 Service of notices.

s.115 Interpretation.

s.116 Application to Crown property.

s.117 Amendments, trasitional provisions, repeals, etc.

s.118 Short title, commencement and extent.

s.para.154 In determining whether any rent lawfully due from a tenant...

Schedules

2 of 91 shown

s.sch005 (1) The First-tier Tribunal shall make such inquiry, if any,... Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Tribunal must confirm or determine fair rent on referralTribunal / Court

s.sch005 (1) The First-tier Tribunal to whom a matter is referred... Prosecution

Fail to provide information to First-tier Tribunal on requestLandlord

Fine up to £1,000

89 other schedules

s.sch001 The provisions of paragraph 2 or, as the case may...

s.sch001 The original tenant’s spouse or civil partner where the dwelling-house...

s.sch001 Where paragraph 2 above does not apply, but a person...

s.sch001 A person who becomes the statutory tenant of a dwelling-house...

s.sch001 If, immediately before his death, the first successor was still...

s.sch001 The first successor’s spouse or civil partner , where the...

s.sch001 Where paragraph 6 above does not apply but a person...

s.sch001 (1) ) Where after a succession the successor becomes the...

s.sch001 Paragraphs 5 to 7 above do not apply where the...

s.sch001a The provisions of paragraph 2 of this Schedule shall have...

s.sch001a (1) The original tenant’s spouse or civil partner where the...

s.sch001a Where paragraph 2 above does not apply but a person...

s.sch001a A person who becomes the statutory tenant of a dwelling-house...

s.sch001a If, immediately before his death, the first successor was still...

s.sch001a Where a person who— (a) was a member of the...

s.sch001a (1) Where after a succession the successor becomes the tenant...

s.sch001a Paragraphs 5 and 6 above do not apply where the...

s.sch001b The provisions of this Schedule shall have effect for the...

s.sch001b If, immediately before his death, the first successor was still...

s.sch001b Where a person who— (a) was a member of the...

s.sch001b (1) Where after a succession the successor becomes the tenant...

s.sch001b Paragraphs 2 and 3 above do not apply where the...

s.sch002 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 2 above, the relevant...

s.sch002 Accommodation shall not be deemed to be suitable to the...

s.sch002 Any document purporting to be a certificate of a housing...

s.sch002 In this Schedule “housing authority” means a local authority for...

s.sch002 Where any rent lawfully due from the tenant has not...

s.sch004 The Secretary of State shall draw up and from time...

s.sch004 There shall be paid to any member of a panel...

s.sch004 The president of the panel may appoint, with the approval...

s.sch004 There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament—...

s.sch004 (1) A person is disqualified from appointment to, and from...

s.sch004 There shall be one panel for the registration areas in...

s.sch004 The panel shall consist of a number of persons appointed...

s.sch004 The Secretary of State shall nominate two of the persons...

s.sch004 Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, the number...

s.sch004 Subject to paragraph 7 below, each private rented housing committee...

s.sch004 The president of the panel may, if he thinks fit,...

s.sch004 There shall be paid to members of a panel such...

s.sch004 There shall be paid to or in respect of members...

s.sch005 On receiving any application for the registration of a rent,...

s.sch005 (1) On receiving an application for the registration of a...

s.sch005 If such a request as is mentioned in paragraph 11(3)...

s.sch005 (1) Where a matter is referred under paragraph 12 to...

s.sch005 Where a rent is registered in pursuance of such an...

s.sch005 Where a registration is made as mentioned in paragraph 14...

s.sch005 There shall be included, among the matters with respect to...

s.sch005 Where the application is made by the landlord alone the...

s.sch005 (1) Where— (a) the application is made jointly by the...

s.sch005 Where the rent officer, in carrying out his functions under...

s.sch005 (1) Where representations are made as mentioned in paragraph 2...

s.sch005 After considering, in accordance with paragraph 5 above, what rent...

s.sch005 (1) If such an objection as is mentioned in paragraph...

s.sch005 Where, within the period specified in paragraph 8(1)(b) above, or...

s.sch006 An application for a certificate of fair rent—

s.sch006 Where the rent specified in a certificate of fair rent...

s.sch006 (1) If it appears to the rent officer that the...

s.sch006 If it appears to the rent officer that the information...

s.sch006 (1) If it appears to the rent officer that the...

s.sch006 After considering in accordance with paragraph 4 above what rent...

s.sch006 (1) If such a request as is referred to in...

s.sch006 (1) Where an application is referred to the First-tier Tribunal,...

s.sch006 (1) After considering any representation made to them in pursuance...

s.sch006 Where an application under this Schedule is made with respect...

s.sch007 (1) The provisions of this Schedule apply where—

s.sch007 In a case where this Schedule applies, nothing in section...

s.sch007 The formula mentioned in paragraph 2 above is P ×...

s.sch007 (1) If, although the registered rent is higher than the...

s.sch007 (1) Any reference in this Schedule to the relevant date...

s.sch008 Any reference in any enactment (other than this Act) to...

s.sch008 Any reference, however expressed, in any enactment (other than this...

s.sch009 In so far as any regulation, order, scheme, agreement, dissent,...

s.sch009 Any document made, served or issued before the passing of...

s.sch009 Where a period of time specified in an enactment repealed...

s.sch009 Nothing in this Act shall prevent an offence against an...

s.sch009 A conviction of an offence under an enactment repealed by...

s.sch009 Nothing in this Act shall affect the continued operation after...

s.sch009 The amendments to this Act made by Schedule 2 to...

s.schedule/2/part/ii/crossheading/case/11_paragraph/ Where a person (in this case referred to as “the...

s.schedule/2/part/ii/crossheading/case/12_paragraph/ Where a person (in this Case referred to as “the...

s.schedule/2/part/ii/crossheading/case/13_paragraph/ Where the dwelling-house is let under a tenancy for a...

s.schedule/2/part/ii/crossheading/case/14_paragraph/ Where the dwelling-house is let under a tenancy for a...

s.schedule/2/part/ii/crossheading/case/15_paragraph/ Where— (a) the dwelling-house was let on a short tenancy...

s.schedule/2/part/ii/crossheading/case/16_paragraph/ Where the dwelling-house is held for the purpose of being...

s.schedule/2/part/ii/crossheading/case/17_paragraph/ Where the dwelling-house was at any time occupied by a...

s.schedule/2/part/ii/crossheading/case/18_paragraph/ Where proposals for amalgamation, approved for the purposes of a...

s.schedule/2/part/ii/crossheading/case/19_paragraph/ Where a dwelling-house has been let on a regulated tenancy...

s.schedule/2/part/ii/crossheading/case/20_paragraph/ Where a dwelling-house has been designed or adapted for occupation...

s.schedule/2/part/ii/crossheading/case/21_paragraph/ Where the dwelling-house is let by a person (in this...

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Rent (Scotland) Act 1984

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