Section 80: Verification, correction and removal of entries

Renters' Rights Act 2025 · 2025 c. 26View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: Residential landlords — Chapter 3: The Private Rented Sector Database

The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision about—

the verification of landlord and dwelling entries in the database,
the correction of errors in such entries, and
the removal of such entries from the database.

The regulations may, in particular—

require a proportion of landlord and dwelling entries, and of anything required to be provided by regulations under section 77, 78 or 79, specified in or determined in accordance with the regulations to be verified by local housing authorities or others,
make provision about how that verification is to be carried out,
authorise the correction of errors in landlord and dwelling entries and specify by whom such corrections may be made, and
authorise the removal from the database of landlord and dwelling entries that appear to a person specified in the regulations not to meet requirements imposed by or under this Chapter for inclusion in the database.

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