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.