{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provision relating to regulation 2: section 22 of the 1988 Act and applications for a determination of rent during the first six months of a tenancy",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies to an existing tenancy where, immediately before 1st May 2026—\n(a) the tenant is entitled to make an application to the appropriate tribunal under section 22(1) of the 1988 Act (reference of excessive rents to appropriate tribunal), and\n(b) the tenant has not made such an application.\n(2) An application made on or after 1st May 2026 to the appropriate tribunal for a determination of rent where no more than six months have elapsed since the beginning of the tenancy or, in the case of a replacement tenancy, the original tenancy, must be made under section 14(A1) of the 1988 Act (determination of open-market rent by tribunal).\n(3) No application may be made under section 14(A1) of the 1988 Act in relation to a tenancy if an application has previously been made in relation to the tenancy under section 22 of the 1988 Act (as that section had effect immediately before 1st May 2026) which was not subsequently withdrawn.\n(4) In this regulation, “original tenancy” and “replacement tenancy” must be construed in accordance with subsections (6) and (7) respectively of section 21 of the 1988 Act (recovery of possession on expiry or termination of assured shorthold tenancy) as they had effect immediately before 1st May 2026.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 22 of the Housing Act 1988 is amended by section 100(2) and (3) of, and paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 8 to, the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52), and S.I. 2013/1036. See section 45(1) of the Housing Act 1988 for the meaning of “appropriate tribunal”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Subsection (A1) is inserted into section 14 of the Housing Act 1988 by section 7(3) of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 21 is repealed by section 2(b) of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/421/regulation/4",
    "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."
}