{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 21 (prohibition orders relating to category 2 hazards: power 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 2 hazard exists on any residential premises, or\n(ii) any qualifying residential premises fail to meet a type 2 requirement, and\n(b) no management order is in force in relation to the premises under Chapter 1 or 2 of Part 4,\nthe authority may make a prohibition order under this section in respect of the hazard or failure.”\n(3) In subsection (4), for the words from “to” to the end substitute “to—\n“(a) more than one category 2 hazard on the same premises or in the same building containing one or more flats,\n(b) more than one failure to meet type 2 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(4) In the heading, after “hazards” insert “and type 2 requirements”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 17 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/17",
    "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."
}