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  Immigration Bill - Clauses 13-16 - Residential Tenancies
  
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  @ MP voted aye against making it an offence to rent a home to someone who is disqualified as a result of their immigration status from occupying premises under a residential tenancy agreement.
  
  @ MP voted no to make it an offence to rent a home to someone who is disqualified as a result of their immigration status from occupying premises under a residential tenancy agreement.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to make it an offence to rent a home to someone who is disqualified as a result of their immigration status from occupying premises under a residential tenancy agreement. 
  
  MPs were considering the Immigration Bill[1]
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 35, page 9, line 4, leave out Clauses 13 to 16.
  
  Clauses 13 to 16 of the Bill[2] provided for 
  
  An explanatory note accompanying the rejected amendment stated:
  
  :Removes the extension of the right to rent legislation in the Bill.
  
  "Right to rent" refers to landlords having to carry out a "right to rent" check of prospective tenants' immigration status.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/immigration.html Parliament's webpage on the Immigration Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2015-2016/0096/cbill_2015-20160096_en_2.htm#pt2-pb1-l1g13 Clause 8 of the Immigration Bill as at the time of the vote]
  
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