The Act makes it unlawful for landlords and agents to engage in discriminatory conduct against tenants with children or who receive benefits. This will include both overt discriminatory practices such as "No DSS" adverts, and situations where landlords or letting agents use other indirect practices in order to prevent someone entering into a tenancy, such as requiring higher deposits or sums of rent in advance that are not otherwise applied to tenants without children or in receipt of benefits. Breaches in England will be a civil offence with a fine of up to £7,000. Breaches in Wales and Scotland will be subject to criminal sanctions.
	This prohibition of rental discrimination will apply in England, Wales and Scotland. However, the enforcement mechanism will vary across the devolved administrations.
Detail of individual policies in the Act Rental discrimination