The Act prohibits landlords from inviting, encouraging or accepting payments of rent before a tenancy agreement is signed and ensures that any breaches may be subject to local authority enforcement action. Between a tenancy agreement being signed and that tenancy beginning, a landlord may require no more than one month’s rent (or 28 days’ rent for tenancies with rental periods of less than one month). Once the tenancy starts, landlords will be unable to enforce any terms in a tenancy agreement that require rent to be paid in advance of agreed due dates.
Detail of individual policies in the Act Rent in advance