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The Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) (England) Regulations 2015

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Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 620

Landlord And Tenant, England

The Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) (England) Regulations 2015

Made

9th March 2015

Coming into force

6th April 2015

The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 6(2) and (3), 8(3), 13(2) and (4), 22(1) and 45(1) and (5) of, and paragraphs 7(2) and 9(2)(a) of Schedule 2A to, the Housing Act 1988(1) makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) (England) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 6th April 2015.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations any reference to a section or Schedule is a reference to a section of, or Schedule to, the Housing Act 1988 and any reference to a numbered form is a reference to the form bearing that number in the Schedule to these Regulations, or to a form substantially to the same effect.

Prescribed forms

3.  The forms prescribed for the purposes of Part I (rented accommodation) of the Housing Act 1988 are—

(a)for a notice under section 6(2) proposing terms of a statutory periodic tenancy different from the implied terms, Form No. 1;

(b)for an application under section 6(3) referring a notice under section 6(2) to a tribunal, Form No. 2;

(c)for a notice under section 8 informing a tenant or licensee that the landlord intends to begin proceedings for possession of a dwelling-house let on an assured tenancy or an assured agricultural occupancy, Form No. 3;

(d)for a notice under section 13(2) proposing a new rent for an assured tenancy of premises situated in England, Form No. 4;

(e)for a notice under section 13(2) proposing a new rent or licence fee for an assured agricultural occupancy of premises situated in England, Form No. 5;

(f)for an application under section 13(4) referring to a tribunal a notice under section 13(2) relating to an assured tenancy or an assured agricultural occupancy, Form No. 6;

(g)for an application under section 22(1) to a tribunal for a determination of rent under an assured shorthold tenancy, Form No. 7;

(h)for a notice under paragraph 7 of Schedule 2A, by the tenant to the landlord proposing that an assured tenancy be replaced by an assured shorthold tenancy, Form No. 8;

(i)for a notice under paragraph 9 of Schedule 2A, by the landlord to the prospective tenant, proposing an assured shorthold tenancy where the tenancy meets the conditions for an assured agricultural occupancy, Form No. 9.

Revocations and savings

4.—(1) The Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) Regulations 1997(2) are revoked in relation to England.

(2) The Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003(3) are revoked.

(3) Nothing in paragraphs (1) and (2) affects the validity of a notice served before the coming into force of these Regulations if, at the date of service of the notice, the notice was in the form then prescribed by the Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) Regulations 1997 or a form substantially to the same effect.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Brandon Lewis

Minister of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

9th March 2015

Regulation 3

SCHEDULEFORMS PRESCRIBED FOR THE PURPOSES OF PART I OF THE HOUSING ACT 1988

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke, in England, and replace the Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/194, as amended, “the 1997 Regulations”) and revoke and replace the Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/260, “the 2003 Regulations”). They prescribe forms for the purposes of various provisions of Part I of the Housing Act 1988 relating to assured tenancies and assured agricultural occupancies. The use for those purposes of forms substantially to the same effect as the prescribed forms is authorised by regulation 2.

Form 3 prescribed by the 1997 Regulations has been reproduced with minor drafting amendments and with other amendments consequential on the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.

Other forms prescribed by the 1997 Regulations have been reproduced with minor drafting amendments, save for Forms 4D and 4E, which are only applicable in Wales, and Form 7 which is no longer in use in England.

Table 1 provides an overview of the forms prescribed by these Regulations and their equivalence to the forms prescribed by the 1997 Regulations.

Regulation 4 revokes the 1997 Regulations (in England) and the 2003 Regulations and provides that any notice served before the coming into force of these Regulations is valid providing that, at the date of service of the notice, the notice was in the form then prescribed by the 1997 Regulations or a form substantially to the same effect.

Table 1

Form prescribed by

2015 Regulations

Equivalent under 1997 RegulationsPurpose
Form 1Form 1Notice proposing different terms for a Statutory Periodic Tenancy (s. 6(2) Housing Act 1988)
Form 2Form 2Application referring a notice proposing different terms for a Statutory Periodic Tenancy (s. 6(3) Housing Act 1988)
Form 3Form 3Notice seeking possession of a property let on an Assured Tenancy or an Assured Agricultural Occupancy (s.8 Housing Act 1988 (as amended))
Form 4Form 4BLandlord’s Notice proposing a new rent under an Assured Periodic Tenancy of premises situated in England (s. 13(2) Housing Act 1988 (as amended))
Form 5Form 4CLandlord’s or Licensor’s Notice proposing a new rent or license fee under an Assured Agricultural Occupancy of premises situated in England (s. 13(2) Housing Act 1988 (as amended))
Form 6Form 5Application referring a notice proposing a new rent under an Assured Periodic Tenancy or Agricultural Occupancy to the Tribunal (s. 13(4) Housing Act 1988 (as amended))
Form 7Form 6Application to the Tribunal for determination of a rent under an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (s. 22(1) Housing Act 1988 (as amended))
Form 8Form 8Tenant’s notice proposing that an Assured Tenancy be replaced by an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (Schedule 2A, paragraph 7(2) Housing Act 1988 (as inserted by Schedule 7, Housing Act 1996))
Form 9Form 9Landlord’s notice proposing an Assured Shorthold Tenancy where the tenancy meets the conditions for an Assured Agricultural Occupancy (Schedule 2A, paragraph 9 Housing Act 1988 (as inserted by Schedule 7, Housing Act 1996))
(1)

1988 c. 50. In section 45(1) see the definition of “prescribed”. Section 8(3) was amended by the Housing Act 1996 (c.52), Schedule 1, paragraph 1 and section 97(2)(a) of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12). Section 13(2) was amended by S.I. 2003/259, art. 2. Section 22(1) was amended by the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52), Schedule 8, paragraph 2(5). Schedule 2A was inserted by the Housing Act 1996, Schedule 7.

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