PART 5PROVISIONS APPLYING ONLY TO SECURE CONTRACTS
CHAPTER 2VARIATION OF CONTRACTS
104Variation of rent
(1)
The landlord may vary the rent payable under a secure contract by giving the contract-holder a notice setting out a new rent to take effect on the date specified in the notice.
(2)
The period between the day on which the notice is given to the contract-holder and the specified date may not be less than two months.
(3)
Subject to that—
(a)
the first notice may specify any date, and
(b)
subsequent notices must specify a date which is not less than one year after the last date on which a new rent took effect.
(4)
This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all secure contracts under which rent is payable.