{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In section 20 (prohibition orders relating to category 1 hazards: duty of authority to make order) is amended as follows.\n(2) For subsection (1) substitute—\n“(1) If—\n(a) the local housing authority are satisfied that—\n(i) a category 1 hazard exists on any residential premises, or\n(ii) any qualifying residential premises fail to meet a type 1 requirement, and\n(b) no management order is in force in relation to the premises under Chapter 1 or 2 of Part 4,\nmaking a prohibition order under this section in respect of the hazard or failure is a course of action available to the authority in relation to the hazard or failure for the purposes of section 5 (category 1 hazards and type 1 requirements: general duty to take enforcement action).”\n(3) In subsection (3)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), after “exists” insert “, or which fail to meet the requirement,”, and\n(b) for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) if those premises are—\n(i) one or more flats, or\n(ii) accommodation falling within paragraph (e) of the definition of “residential premises” in section 1(4) (homelessness) that is not a dwelling, HMO or flat,\nit may prohibit the use of the building containing the flat or flats or accommodation (or any part of the building) or any external common parts;”.\n(4) In subsection (4)—\n(a) after “exists,” insert “or which fail to meet the requirement,”, and\n(b) in paragraph (a), after “hazard” insert “or failure”.\n(5) In subsection (5), for the words from “to” to the end substitute\n“to—\n(a) more than one category 1 hazard on the same premises or in the same building containing one or more flats,\n(b) more than one failure to meet type 1 requirements by the same premises or the same building containing one or more flats, or\n(c) any combination of such hazards and failures—\n(i) on or by the same premises, or\n(ii) in or by the same building containing one or more flats.”\n(6) In the heading, after “hazards” insert “and type 1 requirements”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 16 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/4/paragraph/16",
    "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."
}