EDUCATION: New Clause 24— Duty of letting agents to publicise fees
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Clause text:

New Clause 24— Duty of letting agents to publicise fees
‘(1) A letting agent must, in accordance with this section, publicise details of the agent’s relevant fees.
(2) The agent must display a list of the fees—
(a) at each of the agent’s premises at which the agent deals face-to-face with persons using or proposing to use services to which the fees relate, and
(b) at a place in each of those premises at which the list is likely to be seen by such persons.
(3) The agent must publish a list of the fees on the agent’s website (if it has a website).
(4) A list of fees displayed or published in accordance with subsection (2) or (3) must include—
(a) a description of each fee that is sufficient to enable a person who is liable to pay it to understand the service or cost that is covered by the fee or the purpose for which it is imposed (as the case may be),
(b) in the case of a fee which tenants are liable to pay, an indication of whether the fee relates to each dwelling-house or each tenant under a tenancy of the dwelling-house, and
(c) the amount of each fee inclusive of any applicable tax or, where the amount of a fee cannot reasonably be determined in advance, a description of how that fee is calculated.
(5) The Secretary of State may by regulations specify—
(a) other ways in which a letting agent must publicise details of the relevant fees charged by the agent;
(b) the details that must be given of fees publicised in that way.’—(Jenny Willott.)