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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-residential-accommodation-prescribed-requirements-and-codes-of-practice-order-2014/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2874",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-residential-accommodation-prescribed-requirements-and-codes-of-practice-order-2014",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The prescribed requirements",
  "text": "For the purposes of sections 24(2) and (7)(a) and 26(2) and (7)(a) of the Act, a landlord or agent complies with the prescribed requirements if—\n(a) the landlord or agent—\n(i) obtains documents prescribed in article 4 from an occupier or prospective occupier; and\n(ii) in accordance with article 5, takes steps to verify, retain, copy or record the contents of a document obtained under article 4;\n(aa) article 5ZA applies (IDVT identity check);\n(b) the landlord or agent takes the steps set out in article 5A; or\n(c) the landlord or agent takes the steps set out in article 5B.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3 substituted (2.11.2020) by The Immigration (Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1047), arts. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 3(aa) inserted (6.4.2022) by The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) and Licensing Act 2003 (Personal and Premises Licences) (Forms), etc., Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/242), regs. 1(1)(b), 9(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/700",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) (Amendment) Regulations 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/700",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) (Amendment) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2874/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:58:18.171983+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."
}