{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-rent-coronavirus-act-2022/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-rent-coronavirus-act-2022/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/12",
  "legislation_title": "Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-rent-coronavirus-act-2022",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Overview",
  "text": "(1) This Act enables the matter of relief from payment of protected rent debts due from the tenant to the landlord under a business tenancy to be resolved by arbitration (if not resolved by agreement).\n(2) In this Act—\n(a) sections 2 to 6 define for the purposes of this Act the terms “protected rent debt”, “the matter of relief from payment” and other key terms used in this Act;\n(b) Part 2 provides for statutory arbitration between the landlord and the tenant under a business tenancy in relation to the matter of relief from payment of a protected rent debt;\n(c) Part 3 provides for temporary restrictions on the availability of certain remedies and insolvency arrangements that would otherwise be available in relation to a protected rent debt.\n(3) Nothing in this Act is to be taken as—\n(a) affecting the capacity of the parties to a business tenancy to resolve by agreement, at any time, the matter of relief from payment of a protected rent debt (or any other matter relating to the tenancy), or\n(b) preventing an agreement resolving the matter of relief from payment of a protected rent debt from having effect or being enforced.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 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/section/1",
    "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."
}