{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenant-fees-act-2019/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenant-fees-act-2019/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2019/4",
  "legislation_title": "Tenant Fees Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenant-fees-act-2019",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A payment of rent under a tenancy is a permitted payment.\n(1A) But a payment of rent is a prohibited payment if—\n(a) it is payable before the tenancy is entered into, and\n(b) the tenancy is an assured tenancy.\n(1B) This paragraph is subject to paragraph 1A.\n(2) But, subject as follows, if the amount of rent payable in respect of any relevant period (“P1”) is more than the amount of rent payable in respect of any later relevant period (“P2”), the additional amount payable in respect of P1 is a prohibited payment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1(1A)(1B) inserted (1.5.2026 for specified purposes) by Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (c. 26), ss. 9(2), 145(1)(8) (with ss. 138, 146(1), Sch. 6 paras. 1, 3, 4, 16, 17); S.I. 2026/421, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1A and cross-heading substituted for Sch. 1 para. 1(2) (and thereby sub-paras. (3)-(8) formerly in para. 1 become Sch. 1 para. 1A(3)-(8) (1.5.2026 for specified purposes) by virtue of Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (c. 26), ss. 9(3), 145(1)(8) (with ss. 138, 146(1), Sch. 6 paras. 1, 3, 4, 16, 17); S.I. 2026/421, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 1.6.2019 by S.I. 2019/857, reg. 3(z)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/4/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:24.931982+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."
}