This guidance advises a landlord, letting agent or homeowner how to conduct a right to rent check when letting privately rented accommodation.
What’s changed: Updated the landlord's guide to right to rent checks. A full list of the changes can be found in the guide.
This guidance explains what landlords and letting agents must do to comply with the Right to Rent Scheme.
Landlords and letting agents must carry out right to rent checks on people before entering into a tenancy agreement with them to make sure they are allowed to rent.
You should use this guidance to find out:
- what a right to rent check is
- why you need to do a right to rent check
- letting arrangements that fall within the scheme
- how to carry out checks
- when to carry out initial checks and follow-up checks
- what documents are acceptable for a manual right to rent check
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