Group 10: Fixed-penalty notices (Amendments 43, 44)

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:04 pm on 19 March 2019.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 6:04, 19 March 2019

Clearly, we should not be in the business of canvassing for more jobs for the citizens advice bureaux or any other advice agencies who have to support vulnerable tenants to enable them to navigate their way through the legal system, so I—. David Melding makes some coherent points, and I appreciate there are some later clauses coming forward later that the Minister is proposing that ensure that the enforcement authority has to notify Rent Smart Wales if the landlord hasn't complied or has accepted a prohibited payment. So, I want to understand exactly how Rent Smart Wales, in combination with the local authority, is going to ensure that any landlord who persists in asking for a prohibited payment and doesn't then repay it is going to be sufficiently deterred not to do it and to return the money they have illegally levied, if it is not through the method that David Melding is suggesting.