# Tenant Fees Act 2019, Section 21: Enforcement of client money protection schemes for property agents


(1) The Housing and Planning Act 2016 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 134 (client money protection schemes: approval or designation), after subsection (2) insert—
“(3) Regulations under this section may confer a discretion on the Secretary of State in connection with—
(a) the approval or designation of a client money protection scheme,
(b) conditions which must be complied with by the administrator of such a scheme,
(c) the amendment of such a scheme, or
(d) the withdrawal of approval or revocation of designation of such a scheme.”
(3) In section 135 (enforcement of client money protection scheme regulations)—
(a) in subsection (4)(e), after “for the purposes of any of its functions” insert “ (whether or not the function is expressed to be a function of a local weights and measures authority) ”, and
(b) for subsection (5) substitute—
“(5) In this section “local authority in England” means a local weights and measures authority in England.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/4/section/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/tenant-fees-act-2019/section-21
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