{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-130",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-130.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016",
  "path": "section/130",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "130",
  "heading": "Tenants' associations: power to request information about tenants",
  "text": "After section 29 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 insert—\n“Tenants' associations: power to request information about tenants\n29A (1) The Secretary of State may by regulations impose duties on a landlord to provide the secretary of a relevant tenants' association with information about relevant qualifying tenants.\n(2) The regulations may—\n(a) make provision about the tenants about whom information must be provided and what information must be provided;\n(b) require a landlord to seek the consent of a tenant to the provision of information about that tenant;\n(c) require a landlord to identify how many tenants have not consented.\n(3) The regulations may—\n(a) authorise a landlord to charge costs specified in or determined in accordance with the regulations;\n(b) impose time limits on a landlord for the taking of any steps under the regulations;\n(c) make provision about the form or content of any notices under the regulations (including provision permitting or requiring a person to design the form of a notice);\n(d) make other provision as to the procedure in connection with anything authorised or required by the regulations.\n(4) The regulations may confer power on a court or tribunal to make an order remedying a failure by a landlord to comply with the regulations.\n(5) The regulations may include supplementary, incidental, transitional or saving provision.\n(6) Regulations under this section are to be made by statutory instrument.\n(7) A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(8) In this section—\n“relevant tenants' association”, in relation to a landlord, means an association of tenants of the landlord at least one of whom is a qualifying tenant of a dwelling in England;\n“relevant qualifying tenant” means—\n(a)a person who is a qualifying tenant of a dwelling in England and a member of the relevant tenants' association, or\n(b)a person who is a qualifying tenant of a dwelling in England by virtue of being required to contribute to the same costs as a qualifying tenant who is a member of the relevant tenants' association;\n“qualifying tenant” means a tenant who, under the terms of the lease, is required to contribute to the same costs as another tenant by the payment of a service charge.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/22/section/130",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:11.976723+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."
}