Subsection (1) provides that this section applies where regulations are made under sections 77 or 79 requiring the payment of a fee for the creation or renewal of "landlord entries" and "dwelling entries".
	Subsection (2) provides that such regulations must (a) specify the amounts of any fees, or (b) if the regulations state that fees are to be determined by the database operator, the regulations may specify which of "relevant costs" the fees must be calculated by reference to. There may be different fee amounts for different landlords/circumstances. Subsection (3) provides that fee amounts specified in regulations (as permitted under subsection (2)(a)) are to be calculated by reference to the "relevant costs".
	What is meant by "relevant costs" is set out in subsection (4). These are costs incurred in or associated with, or likely to be incurred or associated with (a) the establishment and operation of the database, such as setting up the database, testing and integration, the maintenance of technology and the provision of administrative support to users; (b) the enforcement of requirements in respect of the database under this chapter; (c) the performance of other functions of the database operator under this chapter, like the provision of guidance to residential landlords; and (d) the enforcement of any other requirements imposed under this Act or otherwise "in relation to the private rented sector". Fees can be set at a level that covers relevant costs not directly connected to services provided to the particular fee-payer.
	Subsection (5) provides that the fee charged for a database entry to become active again after becoming inactive under section 79, subsections (2)(a) and (b) may be higher than the fee that would have been charged had the entry remained active, this being the sum of the re-registration fee and an additional late fee.
	Subsection (6) provides that regulations may be used to set out that fees are to be paid to the database operator by persons and circumstances stipulated in the regulations.
	Under subsection (7) the Secretary of State may direct the database operator to pay all, or part, of the amount it receives in fees to local housing authorities or into the Consolidated Fund.
	Subsection (8) makes provisions about the situation where the Secretary of State is the database operator. Namely, subsection (7) does not apply if the Secretary of State is the database operator and that the Secretary of State may pass onto local housing authorities monies collected through fees.
	Subsection (9) sets out important definitions used in this section, including what is meant by "in relation to private rented sector".
Part 2: Residential landlord Chapter 3: The Private Rented Sector Database Section 81: Fees for landlord and dwelling entries Effect