{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenant-fees-act-2019/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenant-fees-act-2019/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2019/4",
  "legislation_title": "Tenant Fees Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenant-fees-act-2019",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The person who received the holding deposit must repay it if—\n(a) that person believes that any of paragraphs 8 to 12 applies in relation to the deposit, but\n(b) that person does not give the person who paid the deposit a notice in writing within the relevant period explaining why the person who received it intends not to repay it.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1) “the relevant period” means—\n(a) where the landlord decides not to enter into a tenancy agreement before the deadline for agreement, the period of 7 days beginning with the date on which the landlord decides not to do so;\n(b) where the landlord and tenant fail to enter into a tenancy agreement before the deadline for agreement, the period of 7 days beginning with the deadline for agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 1.6.2019 by S.I. 2019/857, reg. 3(aa)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/4/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}