Annex B – Progress of Act Table
- The table below summarises how each Section of the Act was numbered during its passage through Parliament.
Section of the Act Bill as Introduced in the Commons/Lords Bill as amended on Report in the Lords Section 1: Prohibitions applying to landlords Clause 1 Clause 1 Section 2: Prohibitions applying to letting agents Clause 2 Clause 2 Section 3: Prohibited and permitted payments Clause 3 Clause 3 Section 4: Effect of a breach of section 1 or 2 Clause 4 Clause 4 Section 5: Treatment of holding deposit Clause 5 Clause 5 Section 6: Enforcement by local weights and measures authorities Clause 6 Clause 6 Section 7: Enforcement by district councils Clause 7 Clause 7 Section 8: Financial Penalties Clause 8 Clause 8 Section 9: Power to amend maximum financial penalties Clause 9 Clause 9 Section 10: Recovery by enforcement authority of amount paid Clause 10 Clause 10 Section 11: Interest on payments under section 10 Clause 11 Clause 11 Section 12: Offences Clause 12 Clause 12 Section 13: Offences by bodies corporate Clause 13 Clause 13 Section 14: Duty to notify when taking enforcement action Clause 14 Clause 14 Section 15: Recovery by relevant person of amount paid Clause 15 Clause 15 Section 16: Assistance to recover amount paid Clause 16 Clause 16 Section 17: Restriction on terminating tenancy Clause 17 Clause 17 Section 18: Duty to publicise fees on third party websites Clause 18 Clause 18 Section 19: Information about membership of client money protection scheme Clause 19 Clause 19 Section 20: Penalties for continuing breach of duty Clause 20 Clause 20 Section 21: Enforcement of client money protection schemes for property agents Clause 21 Clause 21 Section 22: Client money protection schemes: approval and designation n/a Clause 22 Section 23: Client money protection schemes: requirement to belong to a scheme etc n/a Clause 23 Section 24: Lead Enforcement Authority Clause 22 Clause 24 Section 25: General duties of the lead enforcement authority Clause 23 Clause 25 Section 26: Enforcement by the lead enforcement authority Clause 24 Clause 26 Section 27: Meaning of ‘‘letting agent’’ and related expressions Clause 25 Clause 27 Section 28: Interpretation Clause 26 Clause 28 Section 29: Consequential amendments Clause 27 Clause 29 Section 30: Transitional provision Clause 28 Clause 30 Section 31: Financial provisions Clause 29 Clause 31 Section 32: Crown application Clause 30 Clause 32 Section 33: Extent Clause 31 Clause 33 Section 34: Commencement Clause 32 Clause 34 Section 35: Short title Clause 33 Clause 35 Schedule 1: Permitted Payments Schedule 1 Schedule 1 Schedule 2: Treatment of holding deposit Schedule 2 Schedule 2 Schedule 3: Financial penalties etc Schedule 3 Schedule 3
