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What period and facts govern tenancy deposit prescribed information in England and Wales?

Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply.

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Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit
Trigger
Actual receipt of the qualifying deposit and identification of every required recipient
Rule
Housing Act 2004 section 213
Housing Act 2004 section 213

The tenancy deposit prescribed information guide uses the complete official current source bodies retained in this review. Territorial alternatives, commencement, saved cases, actual orders and underlying document facts remain material. Full originals control the derived provision extracts. SI 2026/421 is retained for the May 1, 2026 commencement and relevant transitional scope; receipt or offense dates alone do not establish every saved-case condition.

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Housing Act 2004 section 213. Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply. The tenancy deposit prescribed information source guide supplies no computed date or paid calculation.

Housing Act 2004 section 213

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What period and facts govern tenancy deposit prescribed information in England and Wales?

Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply.

Responsible actor. The landlord who must provide deposit information to the tenant and any relevant person.

Actual receipt of the qualifying deposit and identification of every required recipient

The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply.

The landlord who must provide deposit information to the tenant and any relevant person. Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply.

Housing Act 2004 section 213

How does this provision count time?

  1. Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit
  2. Give the required information in the prescribed form or substantially equivalent form to the tenant and every relevant person.
  3. The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply.

Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. Preserve the exact statutory month, year or day wording and the established event. Actual receipt of the qualifying deposit and identification of every required recipient.

For tenancy deposit prescribed information, establish legally effective giving, application, entry or distribution as this source requires. A weekend or closed office cannot supply missing statutory facts or an assumed discretionary extension.

Housing Act 2004 section 213

Which facts prevent one automatic date?

Housing Act 2004 section 213. Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply. The tenancy deposit prescribed information source guide supplies no computed date or paid calculation.

ResultRead the operative provision and establish the applicable branch.

The landlord who must provide deposit information to the tenant and any relevant person has records of actual receipt of the qualifying deposit and identification of every required recipient. Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. Give the required information in the prescribed form or substantially equivalent form to the tenant and every relevant person. The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply. Establish the complete tenancy deposit prescribed information branch before selecting an endpoint.

The proposed tenancy deposit prescribed information completion encounters a closed office, weekend or disputed effective event. Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. Preserve the exact statutory month, year or day wording and the established event. Actual receipt of the qualifying deposit and identification of every required recipient. For tenancy deposit prescribed information, establish legally effective giving, application, entry or distribution as this source requires. A weekend or closed office cannot supply missing statutory facts or an assumed discretionary extension. Resolve effective completion for tenancy deposit prescribed information under the actual source. No substitute date is computed.

The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply. Actual receipt of the qualifying deposit and identification of every required recipient. Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. Give the required information in the prescribed form or substantially equivalent form to the tenant and every relevant person. Preserve this tenancy deposit prescribed information qualification before relying on a purported final date.

Which conditions and exceptions apply?

Actor and completed tenancy deposit prescribed information step
The landlord who must provide deposit information to the tenant and any relevant person. Give the required information in the prescribed form or substantially equivalent form to the tenant and every relevant person.
Controlling tenancy deposit prescribed information event and material branch
Actual receipt of the qualifying deposit and identification of every required recipient. The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply.
Counting and completion for tenancy deposit prescribed information
Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. Preserve the exact statutory month, year or day wording and the established event. Actual receipt of the qualifying deposit and identification of every required recipient. For tenancy deposit prescribed information, establish legally effective giving, application, entry or distribution as this source requires. A weekend or closed office cannot supply missing statutory facts or an assumed discretionary extension.
Housing Act 2004 section 213
  • The landlord who must provide deposit information to the tenant and any relevant person. Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply.
  • Tenancy deposit prescribed information concerns give the required information in the prescribed form or substantially equivalent form to the tenant and every relevant person. Its actual receipt of the qualifying deposit and identification of every required recipient must be established independently of a neighboring procedure’s event.

What must the responsible actor complete?

Questions about this procedure

What period and facts govern tenancy deposit prescribed information in England and Wales?

What period governs tenancy deposit prescribed information?

Section 213(6) requires the prescribed information within thirty days beginning with receipt of the deposit. The recipient and information-content duties are independent of placing money in a scheme. The receipt day is included and the actual tenancy regime must apply.

Housing Act 2004 section 213

Which event controls tenancy deposit prescribed information?

Actual receipt of the qualifying deposit and identification of every required recipient. The landlord who must provide deposit information to the tenant and any relevant person must preserve the event evidence.

Housing Act 2004 section 213

What completes tenancy deposit prescribed information?

Give the required information in the prescribed form or substantially equivalent form to the tenant and every relevant person. The completion must match the actual source procedure.

Housing Act 2004 section 213

Does sending information only to the tenant always suffice?

No. Section 213(5) and (6) also require information to any relevant person. Identify any person who paid the deposit on the tenant’s behalf.

Housing Act 2004 section 213

What determines the required information?

Article 2 of the 2007 Prescribed Information Order identifies scheme details, procedures, tenancy particulars and the landlord’s confirmation. A generic receipt is not the complete prescribed information.

Housing (Tenancy Deposits) (Prescribed Information) Order 2007 article 2

Is the information period separate from scheme compliance?

Yes. Section 213(3) concerns scheme initial requirements. Subsections (5) and (6) concern giving prescribed information and have their own completed-act evidence.

Housing Act 2004 section 213

Official sources and review

Provisions used (3)
Provisions used in this guide
ProvisionPurpose
Housing Act 2004 section 213Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
Housing (Tenancy Deposits) (Prescribed Information) Order 2007 article 2Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026 regulation 2Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
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