# Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022, Section 1: Overview

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(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).
(2) In this Act—
(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;
(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;
(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.
(3) Nothing in this Act is to be taken as—
(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
(b) preventing an agreement resolving the matter of relief from payment of a protected rent debt from having effect or being enforced.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/12/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-rent-coronavirus-act-2022/section-1
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