Tenant Fees Act 2019

21 Enforcement of client money protection schemes for property agents E+W

(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.”

Commencement Information

I1 S. 21(1)(3) in force at 1.4.2019 by S.I. 2019/428, reg. 2(a)

I2 S. 21(2) in force at 1.6.2019 by S.I. 2019/857, reg. 3(t)