{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/section-74",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/section-74.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "section/74",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Local Commissioners’ investigation of complaints by persons who are not tenants",
  "text": "In section 26 of the Local Government Act 1974, at the end of subsection (8) insert\n“unless—\n(a) the investigation is in respect of action described in paragraph 5A or 5B of that Schedule, and\n(b) the person affected is not an individual of a description whom a scheme approved under Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1996 (investigation of social housing complaints by housing ombudsman) provides may make a complaint under that scheme in respect of that action.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 74 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(1)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 74 in force at 1.5.2026 by S.I. 2026/421, reg. 3(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/section/74",
    "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."
}