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  Tenant Fees Bill - Clause 8 - Financial Penalties
  
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  @ MP voted aye in favour of higher fines for landlords or letting agencies breaching the law limiting what tenants can be charged for. 
  @ MP voted no against higher fines for landlords or letting agencies breaching the law limiting what tenants can be charged for. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted against higher fines for landlords or letting agencies breaching the law limiting what tenants can be charged for. 
  
  MPs were considering the Tenant Fees Bill[1]
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 1, page 5, line 13, leave out âÂ£5,000â and insert âÂ£30,000â.
  
  Had it not been rejected this amendment would have impacted Clause 8 of the Bill[2] titled: "Financial Penalties" and which prior to the amendment began:
  
  :(1)Where an enforcement authority is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that a person has breached section 1 or 2 or Schedule 2, the authority may impose a financial penalty on the person in respect of the breach.
  :(2)The financial penaltyâ
  :(a)may be of such amount as the authority determines, but
  :(b)subject to subsection (3), must not exceed Â£5,000.
  
  The Bill prohibited landlords (in Section 1) and letting agents (in Section 2) from making charges in connection with a tenancy other than those which are specifically permitted, which are:
  
  :Rent:
  :Deposits 
  :Utilities and Council Tax
  :Payments changes to a tenancy requested by the tenant
  :Payments associated with an early termination of the tenancy requested by the tenant
  :Payments in the event of a default of a tenant (up to the amount of the landlord's loss)
  
  
  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/tenantfees.html Parliament's webpage on the Tenant Fees Bill]
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0203/cbill_2017-20190203_en_2.htm#pb2-l1g8 Clause 6 of the Tenant Fees Bill]
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