Section 82 — Housing and Planning Act 2016: Information about income

Information about income 82 1 Rent regulations may give a local housing authority the power to require a tenant to provide information or evidence for the purpose of determining whether the local housing authority is obliged by the regulations to charge a specific level of rent and what that level is.

2 Rent regulations may require an English local housing authority to charge the maximum rent to a tenant who has failed to comply with a requirement.

3 Regulations made in reliance on subsection (1) may, in particular, make provision about—

a the kind of information or evidence that may be required;

b the time within which and the manner and form in which the information or evidence is to be provided.

4 In subsection (1) “ tenant ” includes prospective tenant.

5 In subsection (2) “ the maximum rent ” means the rent that a local housing authority is required to charge a high income tenant of the premises under section 80 (or, if regulations under section 80(3)(a) provide for different rents for people with different incomes, the rent that a person in the highest income bracket would be required to pay).