{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Application in certain circumstances",
  "text": "(1) In a case where a relevant pre-application instrument—\n(a) gave, or gives, a discretion whether to let an affected dwelling-house, but\n(b) required, or requires, the affected dwelling-house to be let under a tenancy of a particular description if it is let,\nthe instrument is to be regarded as permitting (and not as requiring) the dwelling-house to be let under that description of tenancy (and this Part of this Schedule applies accordingly).\n(2) The following provisions of this paragraph apply if there are two or more affected dwelling-houses in relation to the relevant pre-application instrument.\n(3) This Part of this Schedule applies separately in relation to each of those dwelling-houses.\n(4) But, if any term of the instrument is such that it gave, or gives, a discretion as to which particular dwelling-house or dwelling-houses the term applies to, this Schedule does not affect that discretion (but the term otherwise has effect subject to this Part of this Schedule).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 31 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/31",
    "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."
}