Right to Rent Process Log | Free Follow-Up Date Calculator for Landlords (England)

Sources & Guidance • England

Official sources for Right to Rent

This page is the “engine room” of the site. It shows exactly which official guidance and legislation we rely on, so you can verify wording, routes, and follow-up expectations from the source.

Primary GOV.UK guidance

If you only bookmark a few pages, make it these. They cover the routes, the order of checks, and when you must use the Home Office instead.

Core guide

Checking your tenant’s right to rent

Start here for the official overview and step-by-step routes.

Open on GOV.UK
Online route

Check a tenant’s right to rent using a share code

The official service landlords use when a tenant has a share code.

Use the share code service

Quick boundary

This site does not interpret immigration status. It helps you record which official route you used, and it helps you calculate follow-up dates from the dates you relied on.

Tip: keep the GOV.UK pages open while using the Process Log.

Landlord Checking Service (LCS)

When you can’t complete a standard route (for example, pending Home Office matters), you request a Right to Rent check from the Home Office.

Plain-English help

When to use LCS

Our calm summary of when standard routes don’t apply and what to record for your audit trail.

Read the LCS help page
Reminder

Record what you did

Keep the request confirmation and the Home Office response with the tenancy record.

Start a Process Log entry

If a case needs LCS, you can still use this site to document the route and keep your notes tidy, but the Home Office notice is the authoritative outcome.

Legislation

Right to Rent duties and the “statutory excuse” sit in legislation. These links are here so you can cross-check the legal basis behind the guidance.

Primary Act

Immigration Act 2014

The Act that introduced Right to Rent duties and related enforcement framework.

View on legislation.gov.uk
Key section

Section 22: “Prohibition on letting”

The core section covering the prohibition on authorising occupation where a person is disqualified.

Open Section 22
Definitions

Section 21: disqualification definitions

Definitions that underpin how “right to rent” and disqualification concepts are set out.

Open Section 21

This site is not a substitute for the Act or the official guidance. It’s a structured record-keeper.

Avoiding unlawful discrimination

Right to Rent checks can create pressure and time stress. The official code of practice exists to help landlords comply without unlawful discrimination.

Home Office code of practice (avoid unlawful discrimination) Practical guidance for conducting checks fairly while complying with Right to Rent duties. Open on GOV.UK
Right to rent immigration checks: landlords’ code of practice (index page) The broader code of practice hub page, including update history. Open on GOV.UK
Online identity checks (IDSP) overview If you use an identity service provider, this gives the official overview of the concept and boundaries. Open on GOV.UK

Calm reminder

Apply the same process to everyone, don’t “guess” based on names, accents, or documents that look unfamiliar. When in doubt, rely on the official routes (share code, manual check, or LCS).

How this site uses these sources

The purpose is clarity under pressure. This tool records your route and dates, and points back to official guidance whenever exact wording matters.

What we do: help you document which check route you followed, calculate follow-up dates using the “later of” approach, and generate a printable audit note you keep yourself.

What we don’t do: we don’t check immigration status, we don’t store tenant data, and we don’t provide legal advice. All processing runs locally in your browser.

If you want to start, go to Start Process Log. If you suspect LCS is required, check LCS Help.

Jurisdiction: England only. If your property is in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland, different rules apply.

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