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Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013

Section 84: Redress schemes: property management work

573.This section introduces powers for the Secretary of State to require persons who engage in property management work to be members of a redress scheme for dealing with complaints in connection with that work.

574.Subsection (6) defines property management work. The premises managed must be located in England and consist of or include a dwelling-house let under a relevant tenancy (as defined in subsection (8)). Subsection (7) excludes property management work undertaken by local authorities and private registered providers of social housing and enables the Secretary of State to exclude other activities from the scope of property management work. Local authorities and private registered providers of social housing are excluded by subsection (6) as Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1996 already requires those landlords to belong to an approved Scheme. The approved scheme under that Act is the Housing Ombudsman Service.

575.Subsection (8) defines a relevant tenancy as an assured tenancy (which is the most common type of tenancy in the private rented sector); a regulated tenancy under the Rent Act 1977 (which applies to tenancies in the private rented sector granted before 15 January 1989); or a long lease of residential property. Subsection (8) also enables the Secretary of State to designate further types of tenancy as a ‘relevant tenancy’; however subsection (9) ensures that a business lease cannot be a ‘relevant tenancy’.

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