# The Local Authorities (Rental Auctions) (England) and Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) Regulations 2024, Paragraph 6: Tenant further remedies


(1) A requirement, where—
(a) the landlord’s completion date is later than the end of the three-month period referred to in paragraph 5(2) (the “target period”),
(b) that period is not extended under paragraph 5(3), and
(c) the landlord has failed to use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the landlord’s works are completed,
for the landlord to pay any liquidated damages payable to the tenant under the tenancy contract within 5 working days of the landlord’s works completion date.
(2) Provision for the rate of liquidated damages payable by the landlord to the tenant under sub-paragraph (1) to be £55 for each day or part of a day the landlord’s works continue after the end of the target period.
Step-in provision
(3) The tenancy contract may include provision—
(a) allowing the tenant to serve notice on the landlord, where the landlord’s works are not completed within the target period, and that period has not been extended under paragraph 5(3), stating the tenant’s intention to complete the landlord’s works at the tenant’s own cost;
(b) where the landlord receives a notice from the tenant under paragraph (a)—
(i) that the landlord may not undertake any further elements of the landlord’s works,
(ii) the tenant will have the right to undertake the remainder of the landlord’s works and the landlord will provide such reasonable access as is necessary to enable the tenant to do so, and
(iii) that the tenant will be permitted to deduct the proper costs of undertaking the remainder of the landlord’s works from the rent payable under the tenancy commencing on the rent commencement date (and no deposit is payable under the tenancy until such time as the tenant is reimbursed);
(c) if the tenant exercises its right to serve notice under paragraph (a) to undertake the remainder of the landlord’s works, the tenant must (subject to access being provided by the landlord) undertake the works with all due diligence and as soon as reasonably practicable and serve written notice on the landlord as soon as the landlord’s works are complete and the date stated in that notice is to be treated as the landlord’s works completion date.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1139/schedule/2/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-rental-auctions-england-and-town-and-country-planning-general-permitted-development-amendment-regulations-2024/schedule-2/paragraph-6
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