{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-efficiency-private-rented-property-england-and-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-efficiency-private-rented-property-england-and-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/962",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-efficiency-private-rented-property-england-and-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Devaluation exemption",
  "text": "Regulations 10(1) and 11(1) do not require a landlord, or a superior landlord (as the case may be), to consent to the making of—\n(a) a relevant energy efficiency improvement, or\n(b) a combination of two or more relevant energy efficiency improvements,\nspecified in a tenant’s request where a report prepared by an independent surveyor states that the relevant energy efficiency improvement, or combination of relevant energy efficiency improvements (as the case may be), would result in a reduction of more than 5% in the market value of the domestic PR property, or of the building of which it forms part.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 1.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/962/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:39:23.841374+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."
}