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Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 22 Cited in Amendments 1 Related
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JurisdictionWales
Citation2019 anaw 2
Year2019
(1) This section gives an overview of the main provisions of this Act.(2) Part 2 makes it an offence for a landlord or letting agent to require certain payments to be made or certain other steps to be taken in consideration of the grant, renewal or continuance of a standard occupation contract, or pursuant to a term of a standard occupation contract.(3) Part 3 makes provision about the repayment of holding deposits (as defined in Schedule 1) .(4) Part 4 makes provision about enforcement, including provision about powers to require information, and fixed penalties.(5) Part 5 makes provision for the recovery of payments prohibited by this Act, and of holding deposits withheld contrary to this Act.(6) Part 6 gives the Welsh Ministers a power to make provision by regulations in relation to publicising certain fees charged by letting agents.(7) Part 7 makes general provision, including provision about the procedural requirements for making regulations, and about Crown application.in consideration of the grant, renewal or continuance of a standard occupation contract, orpursuant to a term of a standard occupation contract which purports to require the payment to be made.in consideration of the grant, renewal or continuance of a standard occupation contract, orpursuant to a term of a standard occupation contract which purports to require entry into the contract for services.(3) But subsection (2) does not apply if the contract for services concerned provides for services to be provided by a person upon whom the standard occupation contract confers, or would confer, the right to occupy a dwelling (whether or not the contract for services also provides for any other person to provide services) .in consideration of the grant, renewal or continuance of a standard occupation contract, orpursuant to a term of a standard occupation contract which purports to require the loan to be granted.(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine.(6) The court by which a person (“the offender”) is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) may order the offender to pay the amount of the payment concerned or (in a case where part of the payment has been repaid) the outstanding amount of the payment to the person by whom it was paid.in consideration of arranging the grant, renewal or continuance of a standard occupation contract, orpursuant to a term of a standard occupation contract which purports to require the payment to be made.in

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