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Fuel Rights Handbook 21st edition

Chapter 13: You, your landlord and fuel

• 1. You and your landlord
• Implied terms
• 2. Rent increases for fuel or fuel-related services
• Council tenancies
• Local authority heating systems
• Challenging the way heating is provided
• Council tenancies: heating standards
• Non-council tenancies
• Variable service charges in England and Wales
• Variable service charges in Scotland
• Rent control
• 3. Resale of fuel by a landlord
• Maximum permitted charges
• Approval of meters
• Obtaining a meter directly from a supplier
• The landlord fails to pay bills
• Transferring the account
• The landlord is disconnected
• Breach of quiet enjoyment
• Protection of supply where a landlord is insolvent
• Breach of trust
• Harassment
• Local authorities’ powers in England and Wales
• Outside London
• Within London
• Local authorities’ powers in Scotland
• 4. Defective housing and heating systems
• Repairing obligations
• Scotland
• Repairs and improvements
• Structure and exterior
• Installations for heating and for the supply of gas and electricity
• Negligence
• Premises prejudicial to health
• Condensation
• Other local authority powers
• Maintenance of gas appliances
• 5. Energy efficiency matters
• Energy performance certificate
• Minimum energy efficiency standard
• Private rented tenants in England and Wales
• Challenging a decision