{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Housing Act 1996",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 10A of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1996 (housing complaints: collaborative working with Local Commissioners) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the heading above that paragraph, for “Local Commissioners” substitute “other appropriate persons”.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (1), for the words from “a Local Commissioner” to the end substitute “an appropriate person, the housing ombudsman may, subject to sub-paragraph (2), conduct an investigation under this Act jointly with that person and any other appropriate person the housing ombudsman considers has jurisdiction.”\n(4) Omit sub-paragraph (1A).\n(5) In sub-paragraph (3), for the words from “a Local Commissioner” to the end substitute “an appropriate person relates partly to a matter within the jurisdiction of the housing ombudsman, the housing ombudsman may conduct an investigation jointly with that person and any other appropriate person investigating the complaint.”\n(6) In sub-paragraph (4), for the words from “investigation jointly with” to the end substitute “investigation jointly with one or more appropriate persons, the requirements of paragraph 7 may be satisfied by a report made jointly with those persons.”\n(7) For sub-paragraph (6) substitute—\n“(6) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) “appropriate person” means any of the following—\n(i) a Local Commissioner;\n(ii) the new homes ombudsman;\n(iii) an individual who investigates complaints under a redress scheme;\n(b) “redress scheme” means—\n(i) a redress scheme within the meaning of section 100(4) of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (leasehold and estate management redress schemes);\n(ii) a landlord redress scheme within the meaning of section 64(2) of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025;\n(c) a matter is within the jurisdiction of an individual who investigates complaints under a redress scheme if it is a matter which could be the subject of an investigation under that scheme.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 6 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(1)(7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/schedule/3/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:43.804012+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."
}