{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/section-104",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/section-104.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "section/104",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "104",
  "heading": "Rent repayment orders: liability of directors etc",
  "text": "In the Housing and Planning Act 2016, after section 51 insert—\n“Landlord which is body corporate: liability of directors etc\n51A (1) This section applies where—\n(a) a landlord which is a body corporate has committed an offence to which this Chapter applies, and\n(b) the offence—\n(i) was committed with the consent or connivance of a relevant person in relation to the body corporate, or of a person purporting to act in the capacity of a relevant person in relation to the body corporate, or\n(ii) was a specified offence and was attributable to any neglect on the part of such a person.\n(2) That person, as well as the body corporate, is treated for the purposes of this Chapter as having committed the offence.\n(3) In this Chapter a reference to the landlord includes that person.\n(4) In this section—\n“relevant person” means—\n(a) in relation to a body corporate other than one the affairs of which are managed by its members, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body;\n(b) in relation to a body corporate the affairs of which are managed by its members, a member who exercises functions of management with respect to it;\n“specified offence” means an offence under—\n(a) section 1(2) of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977;\n(b) section 16J(2) or (3) of the Housing Act 1988;\n(c) section 30(1), 32(1), 72(1) or 95(1) of the Housing Act 2004;\n(d) section 21 of this Act;\n(e) section 67(1) or 92(2) of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 104 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(1)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 104 in force at 1.5.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2026/421, reg. 3(k) (with reg. 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/section/104",
    "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."
}