{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 5 (general duty to take enforcement action) is amended as follows.\n(2) For subsection (1) substitute—\n“(1) If a local housing authority consider that—\n(a) a category 1 hazard exists on any residential premises, or\n(b) any qualifying residential premises fail to meet a type 1 requirement,\nthe authority must take the appropriate enforcement action in relation to the hazard or failure.”\n(3) In subsection (2)(c), for “a hazard” substitute “an”.\n(4) In subsections (3) to (6), after “hazard” (in each place) insert “or failure”.\n(5) 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. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}