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<Text>In <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50" id="c00025" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1988" Number="50">the 1988 Act</Citation>, after <InternalLink Ref="p01734">section 14ZB</InternalLink> (inserted by section <InternalLink Ref="section-7" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2025/26/section/7" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/section/7">7</InternalLink> of this Act) insert—</Text>
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<Text>A person who paid rent as a tenant under an assured tenancy is entitled to be repaid any part of that rent that relates to days falling after the end of the tenancy.</Text>
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<Text>Subsection <InternalLink Ref="p02352">(1)</InternalLink> does not affect any other entitlement to payment arising at the end of an assured tenancy.</Text>
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