{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-43.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016",
  "path": "section/43",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Making of rent repayment order",
  "text": "(1) The First-tier Tribunal may make a rent repayment order if satisfied, beyond reasonable doubt, that a landlord has committed an offence to which this Chapter applies (whether or not the landlord has been convicted).\n(2) A rent repayment order under this section may be made only on an application under section 41.\n(3) The amount of a rent repayment order under this section is to be determined in accordance with—\n(a) section 44 (where the application is made by a tenant);\n(b) section 45 (where the application is made by a local housing authority);\n(c) section 46 (in certain cases where the landlord has been convicted etc).\n(d) section 46A (where an order is made against more than one landlord or there has been a previous order).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 43(3)(d) inserted (1.5.2026) by Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (c. 26), ss. 103(4), 145(1)(7) (with s. 138); S.I. 2026/421, reg. 3(j) (with reg. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 43 in force at 6.4.2017 for specified purposes by S.I. 2017/281, reg. 4(a) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 43 in force at 6.4.2018 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2018/393, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/22/section/43",
    "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."
}