{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Section 1: start of deemed rent period for existing tenancies",
  "text": "In relation to an existing tenancy, section 4A of the 1988 Act (inserted by section 1) is to be read as if—\n(a) in subsection (3), for the words before paragraph (a), there were substituted “Terms of an assured tenancy which provide for the rent periods are of no effect, so far as relating to rent periods beginning on or after the commencement date (within the meaning given by section 146 of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025), unless each rent period beginning on or after that date is—”;\n(b) in subsection (5), for paragraph (a) (and the “and” following it) there were substituted—\n“(a) for successive rent periods of one month beginning—\n(i) if the commencement date is a date on which a rent period would, but for subsection (3), have begun, with the commencement date, or\n(ii) otherwise, with the day after the last day of the rent period within which the commencement date falls, and”;\n(c) in subsection (6), for “R is the rent that would have been due for the first rent period of the tenancy under the terms that are of no effect by virtue of subsection (3)” there were substituted “R is the rent due for the rent period before the first rent period provided for by subsection (5)(a)”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 2 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/schedule/6/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}