Tenant Fees

Tenancy Types and Management

We believe we have inadvertently contravened the tenant fees ban for a tenancy agreement (issued subsequent to the introduction of the relevant Act in mid-2009).

We used the (then current) NRLA Deposit Guard May 2019 Edition but with an out-of-date addendum of additional clauses, which included:
A deposit deduction of %C2£250 if any animal was housed at the property without written permission.
A deposit deduction of %C2£250 if any part of the property sublet ditto.

The tenancy in question is still running and no attempt has been made to date to apply these deductions, neither have I indicated.

Have we already broken the terms of the Act by including these fees?

If so, would you recommend simply ignoring them when calculating the deposit to be returned or should we issue a formal written cancellation of the relevant clauses?

Please advise.

Forum comments welcome.