{"id":7108,"date":"2015-07-24T11:53:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T11:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/?page_id=7108"},"modified":"2021-09-16T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T16:21:43","slug":"tenant-deposit-scheme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/landlords\/tenant-deposit-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenant deposit scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Housing Act 2004 the Government introduced tenancy deposit protection for all assured shorthold tenancies (ASTs) in England and Wales where a deposit is taken. From April 6th 2007, all deposits paid under an AST should have been protected within 14 calendar days of receipt by the landlord. From 6th April 2012, deposits for all assured shorthold tenancies (ASTs) in England and Wales must now be protected within 30 calendar days of receipt by the landlord, this change is as a result of the Localism Bill 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation aims to ensure that tenants who have paid a deposit to a landlord or letting agent and are entitled to receive all or part of it back at the end of that tenancy, actually get it.<\/p>\n<p>At Keystone we register all deposits with a government approved scheme assuring that our landlords and tenants comply with the Housing Act 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.depositprotection.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7805 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DPSLogo-122x122.png\" alt=\"DPSLogo\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tenancydepositscheme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7805 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/TDS-Combined-Logo_RGB.png\" alt=\"DPSLogo\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of the Housing Act 2004 the Government introduced tenancy deposit protection for all assured shorthold tenancies (ASTs) in England and Wales where a deposit is taken. From April 6th 2007, all deposits paid under an AST should have been protected within 14 calendar days of receipt by the landlord. From 6th April 2012,&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/landlords\/tenant-deposit-scheme\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3992,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7108"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460026,"href":"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7108\/revisions\/460026"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keystoneiea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}