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EnactedTenant Fees Act 2019

Proposed amendments

42 amendments across 17 provisions

Clause 1 4

Amendment #10830#10830AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
at beginning insert “subject to subsection (10),”
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10875#10875AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
at end insert—
The reference in subsection (9)(b) to a person does not include—

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10876#10876AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “the person” and insert “a relevant person”
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10877#10877AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “the person” and insert “a relevant person”
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1
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Clause 2 4

Amendment #10871#10871AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “person’s”
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10872#10872AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “the person” and insert “a relevant person”
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2
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10873#10873AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “the person” and insert “a relevant person”
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10874#10874AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
at end insert “the agent or”
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2
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Clause 4 4

Amendment #10867#10867AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “tenant” and insert “relevant person”
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10868#10868AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “the tenant” and insert “a relevant person”
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Clause
4
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10869#10869AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “tenant” and insert “relevant person”
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4
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10870#10870AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “the tenant” and insert “a relevant person”
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Clause
4
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Clause 5 4

Amendment #10546#10546WithdrawnAmends text
Amendment text
at end insert—
The Secretary of State must by regulations made by statutory instrument make further provision as to the procedure to be followed by a landlord or letting agent when receiving a holding deposit, which shall include a requirement to provide notification to the relevant person in a prescribed form concerning the treatment of the holding deposit.
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5
Baroness Grender
Amendment #10572#10572WithdrawnNew clause / schedule
Amendment text
Insert the following new Clause—
“Duty to provide tenants and prospective tenants with information

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

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Committee stage
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AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause
5
Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #10573#10573WithdrawnNew clause / schedule
Amendment text
Insert the following new Clause—
“Transferable deposits

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

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Committee stage
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AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause
5
Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #10806#10806Not movedNew clause / schedule
Amendment text
Insert the following new Clause—
“Transferable deposits

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

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Report stage
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AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause
5
Lord Kennedy of Southwark

Clause 7 2

Amendment #10570#10570Not movedNew clause / schedule
Amendment text
Insert the following new Clause—
“Report on enforcement resources

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

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AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause
7
Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #10571#10571WithdrawnNew clause / schedule
Amendment text
Insert the following new Clause—
“Enforcement costs

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

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Clause
7
Lord Kennedy of Southwark

Clause 8 2

Amendment #10581#10581WithdrawnAmends text
Amendment text
at end insert “, or
the relevant person has made an application to the First-tier Tribunal under section 15 (recovery by relevant person of amount paid) and has recovered all or part of the amount or (as the case may be) the aggregate amount referred to in that section.”
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8
Baroness Grender
Amendment #10866#10866AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
after “of” insert “paragraph 3 of”
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8
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Clause 10 1

Amendment #10865#10865AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
after “breaching” insert “paragraph 3 of”
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Clause 11 6

Amendment #10861#10861AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “date” and insert “day”
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11
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10862#10862AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “date” and insert “day”
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11
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10863#10863AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “date” and insert “day”
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11
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10864#10864AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “date” and insert “day”
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11
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10968#10968AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “paragraph 4 of Schedule 2” and insert “that paragraph, or
in a case within paragraph 5 of that Schedule, the day after the end of the relevant period within the meaning of that paragraph.”
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3rd reading
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Clause
11
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Amendment #10969#10969AgreedAmends text
Amendment text
after “10(8)” insert “—
in a case within paragraph 4 of Schedule 2”
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3rd reading
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Clause
11
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Clause 15 1

Amendment #10569#10569Not movedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “all or any part of” and insert “a sum of money not more than three times”
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Clause
15
Lord Kennedy of Southwark

Clause 17 2

Amendment #10568#10568Not movedAmends text
Amendment text
at end insert—
No section 21 notice may be given in relation to the tenancy until the end of a period six months from—

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17
Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #10805#10805Not movedAmends text
Amendment text
at end insert—
No section 21 notice may be given in relation to the tenancy until the end of a period of six months from—

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Lord Kennedy of Southwark

Clause 21 1

Amendment #10583#10583DisagreedRemoves provision
Amendment text
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town gives notice of her intention to oppose the Question that Clause 21 stand part of the Bill.
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Committee stage
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DeleteClauseOrSchedule
Clause
21
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

Clause 23 2

Amendment #10556#10556Not movedAmends text
Amendment text
at end insert—
The guidance under subsection (2) must be contained within regulations made by statutory instrument.
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Clause
23
Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #10575#10575WithdrawnAmends text
Amendment text
leave out subsection (2) and insert—
If the lead enforcement authority is the Secretary of State, it is the duty of the lead enforcement authority to issue guidance, in the form of regulations made by statutory instrument, to enforcement authorities about the exercise of their functions under this Act.
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23
Lord Shipley

Clause 24 1

Amendment #10567#10567WithdrawnNew clause / schedule
Amendment text
Insert the following new Clause—
“Report on operation of Tenant Fees Act

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

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Committee stage
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AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause
24
Lord Kennedy of Southwark

Clause 25 1

Amendment #10585#10585WithdrawnAmends text
Amendment text
at end insert—
A person is not a letting agent for the purposes of this Act if—

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Clause
25
Baroness Barran

Clause 28 1

Amendment #10566#10566WithdrawnAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “one year” and insert “six months”
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Clause
28
Lord Kennedy of Southwark

Clause 32 1

Amendment #10565#10565Not movedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out from “force” to end of line 31 and insert “on the day on which it is passed.”
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32
Lord Kennedy of Southwark

Schedule 1 5

Amendment #10547#10547Not movedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) and insert—
But if the amount of the holding deposit exceeds three days’ rent, the amount of the excess is a prohibited payment.
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Lord Shipley
Amendment #10548#10548Not movedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out paragraph (a) and insert—
“four weeks’ rent” means four times one week’s rent, and”
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Lord Shipley
Amendment #10549#10549Not movedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “six” and insert “four”
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Lord Shipley
Amendment #10561#10561Not movedAmends text
Amendment text
leave out “one week’s” and insert “three days’”
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1
Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #10580#10580Not movedAmends text
Amendment text
at end insert—
But a payment in accordance with this paragraph, which relates to housing for which the landlord or letting agent already holds a holding deposit and for which the deadline for agreement as defined in Schedule 2 has not yet passed, is a prohibited payment.”
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Baroness Grender