Section 33B: Offences: agents

Immigration Act 2014 · 2014 c. 22View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 3: Access to services etc — CHAPTER 1: Residential tenancies

Subsection (2) applies to an agent who is responsible for a landlord's contravention of section 22 in relation to premises in England.

The agent commits an offence if the agent—

knew or had reasonable cause to believe that the landlord would contravene section 22 by entering into the residential tenancy agreement in question,
had sufficient opportunity to notify the landlord of that fact before the landlord entered into the agreement, but
did not do so.

Subsection (4) applies where—

a landlord contravenes section 22 in relation to a residential tenancy agreement relating to premises in England,
the contravention is a post-grant contravention, and
a person acting as the landlord's agent ("the agent") is responsible for the post-grant contravention.

The agent commits an offence if—

the agent knows or has reasonable cause to believe that there has been a post-grant contravention in relation to the agreement, and
neither of paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 26(6) applies in relation to the post-grant contravention.

Subsection (4) applies whether or not the agent is given a notice under section 25 in respect of the contravention.

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