{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-fees-discrimination-etc-wales-act-2019/schedule-1/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-fees-discrimination-etc-wales-act-2019/schedule-1/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2019/2",
  "legislation_title": "Renting Homes (Fees, Discrimination etc.) (Wales) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-fees-discrimination-etc-wales-act-2019",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A payment that is required, under a standard occupation contract, to be made in the event of a default by the contract-holder is a permitted payment, but this is subject to sub-paragraph (3).\n(2) In this paragraph, “default” means—\n(a) a failure by the contract-holder to make a payment by the due date to the landlord, or\n(b) a breach by the contract-holder of a term of the contract.\n(3) In the case of a default to which sub-paragraph (4) applies, if the amount of a payment required in the event of the default exceeds the prescribed limit, the amount of the excess is a prohibited payment.\n(4) This sub-paragraph applies to—\n(a) a failure by the contract-holder to make a payment of rent by the due date to the landlord;\n(b) any additional description of default which is specified by regulations.\n(5) In sub-paragraph (3), the “prescribed limit” means a limit specified by, or determined in accordance with, regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 6 in force at 1.9.2019 by S.I. 2019/1150, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2019/2/schedule/1/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:04.658314+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."
}