{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-fees-discrimination-etc-wales-act-2019/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-fees-discrimination-etc-wales-act-2019/section-3.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": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prohibitions applying to letting agents",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a letting agent to require a prohibited payment to be made to the letting agent, or any other person—\n(a) in consideration of arranging the grant, renewal or continuance of a standard occupation contract, or\n(b) pursuant to a term of a standard occupation contract which purports to require the payment to be made.\n(2) It is an offence for a letting agent to require a person to enter into a contract for services with the letting agent, or any other person—\n(a) in consideration of arranging the grant, renewal or continuance of a standard occupation contract, or\n(b) pursuant to a term of a standard occupation contract which purports to require entry into the contract for services.\n(3) But subsection (2) does not apply if the contract for services concerned is a contract between a landlord and a letting agent only, in respect of lettings work or property management work to be carried out by the agent on the landlord's behalf.\n(4) It is an offence for a letting agent to require the grant of a loan to the letting agent, or any other person—\n(a) in consideration of arranging the grant, renewal or continuance of a standard occupation contract, or\n(b) pursuant to a term of a standard occupation contract which purports to require the loan to be made.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine.\n(6) The court by which a person (“the offender”) is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) may order the offender to pay the amount of the payment concerned or (in a case where part of the payment has been repaid) the outstanding amount of the payment to the person by whom it was paid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Part 2 applied (with modifications) (1.9.2019) by the Renting of Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019 (Transitional Provision for Assured Shorthold Tenancies) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1151), reg. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 1.9.2019 by S.I. 2019/1150, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2019/2/section/3",
    "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."
}