{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-rent-coronavirus-act-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-rent-coronavirus-act-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/12",
  "legislation_title": "Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-rent-coronavirus-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Using tenant’s deposit to apply towards unpaid rent debt",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where a tenancy deposit is available to the landlord for the purpose of applying towards an unpaid rent debt.\n(2) The landlord may not, during the moratorium period for the debt, recover the debt from the tenancy deposit.\n(3) If the landlord has lawfully recovered the debt from the tenancy deposit before the beginning of the moratorium period, the tenant is not required to make good any shortfall in the deposit before the end of that period.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 31(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/12/schedule/2/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:19.451396+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}