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  Tenant Fees Bill - Schedule 1 -Permitted Payments
  
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  @ MP voted aye to further restrict the circumstances in which landlords and letting agents can charge tenants for losses arising from a breach of a tenancy agreement.
  
  @ MP voted no  not to further restrict the circumstances in which landlords and letting agents can charge tenants for losses arising from a breach of a tenancy agreement.
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to further restrict the circumstances in which landlords and letting agents can charge tenants for losses arising from a breach of a tenancy agreement.
  
  MPs were considering the Tenant Fees Bill[1]
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  Amendment 3, page 23, in line 30, leave out paragraph 4 and insertâ
  
  :âPayment of Landlord or Agent expenses
  
  :4 (1) A payment that a tenant is required to make to cover a landlordâs or agentâs reasonable loss arising from a breach of a fair condition of the tenancy agreement by the tenant is a permitted payment.
  :(2) In this paragraph a âfair conditionâ is one that relates toâ
  :(a) the replacement cost of a lost key or security device, or
  :(b) payment of the amount of late rent payments and interest relating to those payments arising under or in connection with the tenancy.
  :(3) Paragraph 4(2)(a) does not apply if the payment requiredâ
  :(a) pertains to rent that was paid within 14 days of the date due under the tenancy agreement, or
  :(b) exceeds the interest at Bank of England base rate on the rent from the day the rent was due to the day it was paid.
  :(4) Paragraph 4(2)(b) does not apply if the condition in the tenancy agreement prescribes a fixed fee to be paid for each breach of this term.â
  
  The version of paragraph (4) which, had this amendment not been rejected, would have been removed[2] stated:
  
  :4(1)A payment that a tenant is required to make in the event of a default by the tenant is a permitted payment if the tenant is required by the tenancy  agreement to make the payment in the event of such a default.
  :(2)In this paragraph âdefaultâ means a failure by the tenant toâ
  :(a)perform an obligation, or
  :(b)discharge a liability,arising under or in connection with the tenancy.
  :(3)But if the amount of the payment exceeds the loss suffered by the landlord as a result of the default, the amount of the excess is a prohibited payment.
  
  
  The rejected amendment was accompanied by the following explanatory statement:
  
  :This amendment would remove default fees as a permitted payment and permit the payment of landlord and agent expenses where there is a clear cost due to a tenant fault.
  
  
  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/tenantfees.html Parliament's webpage on the Tenant Fees Bill]
  * [2] [
  
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