Registered Fair rents and the Renters Rights act?
All tenants must have a new tenancy agreement and be given a copy of the ‘Information for tenants ‘ booklet.
That’s fine, but my registered rents – Fair rents tenants have completely different rules. >> https://www.gov.uk/guidance/fair-rents
I cannot put up the rent yearly. The rent is decided by the fair rent office and has to be under market rent. There is no tribunal for them to appeal to and I have no deposit.
The fair rent office does not hold a tenancy agreement for the property.
My tenants are excellent, and they have all the safety checks done for them. I want to comply with the law, but I need help to do so. HELP
Estelle
Editor’s note: Fair Rents .Gov
If a tenancy started before 15 January 1989, this is likely to be a regulated or secure tenancy.
A landlord or a tenant of a regulated or secure tenancy can make an application to have a fair rent registered.
A fair rent may be lower than the market rent.
Landlords can usually apply to register a fair rent from 1 year, 9 months after the last effective date. Tenants can usually apply after 2 years. Early applications will be considered if changes to the property or tenancy since the last registration date render the existing rent to be no longer fair.
Joint applications by the landlord and tenant to register a fair rent may be accepted at any time.
Find out how much rent can be charged for a registered regulated tenancy property.
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9:34 AM, 13th March 2026, About 2 months ago
If your tenancy is a Rent Act protected tenancy, then this is not going to be changed by the Renters Rights Act (in this respect anyway), so I doubt whether you will need to serve the information form.
The form has, at the time of writing, not yet been published yet by the government, so I suggest you watch out for when it is (which should be before the end of March 2026) and read the guidance notes that will be issued at the same time, carefully.
The main ways that the Renters Rights Act will impact on Rent Act tenancies are that landlords will be required to sign up to the Database and join the new Ombudsman service. I think you will also be bound by the new Decent Homes standards and Awaabs law, but these are not due to come into force until the 2030’s.