RIGHT TO RENT SCHEME UPDATE
The Home Office laid secondary legislation on 30 June introducing changes to the Right to Rent Scheme, which will mandate the use of a registered digital verification provider (RtR DVSP), when choosing to use their services for these digital checks, expands the services a RtR DVSP can provide and recognises digital documents. The measures will come into force on 1 October.
Free live webinars with Q&A sessions to update landlords are being held on:
It is only necessary to attend one of the above dates, not both
Webinars will cover:
- eVisa transition – what digital status means for landlords and how tenants now prove their right to rent
- Using share codes – how to check a tenant’s status using the Home Office online service
- Checking identity – how to be satisfied the person presenting for the check is the rightful holder of the status
- Different ways to carry out checks – including the Home Office online service, manual document checks where permitted, and the use of Identity Service Providers
- When to carry out checks – including requirements before a tenancy starts and when repeat checks are needed
- Follow-up checks – when required for time-limited permission to stay, and how to maintain compliance
- Acceptable evidence – when physical documents may still be used and when digital checks are required
- Getting it right – avoiding unlawful discrimination, using the correct checking routes (including the Landlord Checking Service where needed), and maintaining a statutory excuse through proper record keeping
Alongside this, the following supporting products have now been published:
- Draft Code of Practice: The Right to Rent Scheme for Landlords and their agents
- Draft Code of practice Landlords and their Agents- Avoiding unlawful discrimination when conducting ‘right to rent’ checks in the private rented sector
- Digital right to work and rent checks for British and Irish citizens: equality impact assessment