Commentary on provisions of Act Section 3: Prohibited and permitted payments
This section defines prohibited and permitted payments. The list of permitted payments is set out in Schedule 1. Any payment that is not a permitted payment is a prohibited payment.
	This section provides that the Secretary of State may amend the list of permitted payments described in Schedule 1 by regulations. Regulations are subject to the affirmative procedure, meaning that they must be approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament except in the case of an amendment to the maximum amount of permitted payment on assignment, variation or novation of a tenancy for the purposes only of reflecting changes in the value of money. If that applies the regulations may be made by negative procedure meaning that they can be annulled by resolution of either House of Parliament.