# Renting Homes (Fees, Discrimination etc.) (Wales) Act 2019, Section 3: Prohibitions applying to letting agents


(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—
(a) in consideration of arranging the grant, renewal or continuance of a standard occupation contract, or
(b) pursuant to a term of a standard occupation contract which purports to require the payment to be made.
(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—
(a) in consideration of arranging the grant, renewal or continuance of a standard occupation contract, or
(b) pursuant to a term of a standard occupation contract which purports to require entry into the contract for services.
(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.
(4) It is an offence for a letting agent to require the grant of a loan to the letting agent, or any other person—
(a) in consideration of arranging the grant, renewal or continuance of a standard occupation contract, or
(b) pursuant to a term of a standard occupation contract which purports to require the loan to be made.
(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2019/2/section/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/renting-homes-fees-discrimination-etc-wales-act-2019/section-3
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