{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/421",
  "legislation_title": "The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Other provisions coming into force on 1st May 2026",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2025 Act, in so far as not already in force, come into force on 1st May 2026—\n(a) section 25(3) (accommodation for homeless people: duties of local authority);\n(b) Chapter 3 of Part 1 (discrimination in the rental market: England);\n(c) Chapter 6 of Part 1 (stating the proposed rent and rental bidding);\n(d) section 58 (penalties for unlawful eviction or harassment of occupier);\n(e) section 62 (student accommodation that is not an HMO);\n(f) section 74 (Local Commissioners’ investigation of complaints by persons who are not tenants);\n(g) section 97 (financial assistance by the Secretary of State);\n(h) section 98 (rent repayment orders) except—\n(i) subsection (2)(d) (rent repayment orders for offences under sections 67 and 92 of the 2025 Act);\n(ii) subsections (5)(a)(i) and (ii) and 6(a)(i) and (ii), so far as they insert references to offences under section 67 of the 2025 Act (offences: landlord redress schemes) and section 92 of that Act (offences: private rented sector database).\n(i) section 102 and Schedule 5 (financial penalties) except so far as they relate to section 66 of the 2025 Act (financial penalties: landlord redress schemes) and section 91 of that Act (financial penalties: private rented sector database);\n(j) section 103 (rent repayment orders: liability of landlords and superior landlords);\n(k) section 104 (rent repayment orders: liability of directors etc) but not paragraph (e) of the definition of “specified offence” in the inserted section 51A(4) of the Housing and Planning Act 2016;\n(l) section 105 (unlicensed HMOs and houses: offences);\n(m) section 106 (service of improvement notices on landlords and licensors);\n(n) section 107 (enforcement by local housing authorities: general duty);\n(o) section 108 (enforcement by local housing authorities: duty to notify);\n(p) section 109 (enforcement by county councils: duty to notify).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2016 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/421/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:02:37.067518+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."
}