Right to Rent under fire from United Nations
A United Nations expert on racism has urged the government to stop forcing landlords to impose hostile immigration rules. UN special rapporteur on racism E Tendayi Achiume spent two weeks looking at immigration policy in Britain and concluded that laws designed to...
Landlords Fined For Right To Rent Failures
Right to Rent netted 75 landlords who failed to carry out residence checks on tenants last year. Each landlord was issued a civil penalty, Home Office minister Baroness Williams of Trafford told Baroness Lister of Burtersett in response to a written question asking...
Jail For Landlords Ignoring Right To Rent Laws
Landlords who fail to carry out right to rent checks on tenants could face jail. Home Secretary Amber Rudd intends to make ignoring the right to rent rules introduced in February a criminal offence for landlords and letting agents. The new offence will come into force...
New ‘Short’ Right To Rent Guidance
The Home Office has published a new version of the short guide to right to rent obligations for landlords and letting agents. At 14 pages it’s perhaps not a correct definition of being ‘short’! The guidance is not the ‘statutory code of...
Updated Right To Rent Code Of Practice
When conducting right to rent checks under the Immigration Act 2014, in order to achieve a statutory excuse, consideration must be given to the statutory code of practice under the Act. From 25 May 2016, the statutory code of practice has been updated. Landlords must...
Ryanair Case Has Not Led To Right To Rent Crash Landing
Right to Rent has not crash landed as a result of a judge ruling that airline staff should not be blamed for failing to spot forged passports that immigration officers could not tell from real documents. Although the judge criticised the Home Office for forcing...
Update To Right To Rent Statutory Code Of Practice
Just a short note to comment that the right to rent statutory code of practice has had a small update. The statutory code has been in place since December 2014 for the trial period. Then, a new code was published for any tenancy in England granted on or after 1...
New How To Rent Guide, Tenancy Agreements And Right To Rent
Introduction Today – 1 February 2016 – is another important and big day of change for landlords with rented property in England. There is a new “How to rent guide” published by the DCLG, the right to rent provisions are rolled out to the whole...
How To Conduct Right To Rent Checks
This article has been updated to included changes made by Immigration Act 2016 from 1 December 2016. Introduction The right to rent provisions apply to England from 1 February 2016. In basic terms, the right to rent Scheme makes it an offence for a landlord to allow a...
Seven Landlords Fined For Flouting Right To Rent Rules
Right to Rent is a flop – according to official data collected from a pilot scheme in the West Midlands by the government. The figures suggest few landlords have broken the rules but are avoiding Right to Rent by turning away renters who are not British. Under the...
Tough New Right To Rent Rules To Tackle Bad Landlords
The government is ready to order landlords to carry right to rent checks on tenants as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration. Measures in a new Immigration Bill announced by Communities Minister Greg Clarke will only apply to landlords in England. They include...
Right-To-Rent Roll Out On The Way For Landlords
Prime Minister David Cameron is keeping up his pressure on enrolling landlords to police the right to rent by rolling out the scheme under the Immigration Act nationwide later this year. Under right to rent rules, landlords in the West Midlands must check tenants have...
Right To Rent Landlords Hike Fees In Pilot Areas
The Right To Rent pilot scheme has led to claims landlords are turning away tenants they feel will not easily pass an identity check. They are also charging extra fees of up to £100 to carry out ID checks on tenants. The allegations come from one of the groups...Making a Report to The Home Office Limited Right To Rent
If the follow-up checks indicate that an occupier no longer has the right to rent, the landlord does not need to evict them, but should make a report to the Home Office, using link www.gov.uk/report-immigration-crime. The landlord or agent must make the report as soon...
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