PART 6PROVISIONS APPLYING ONLY TO PERIODIC STANDARD CONTRACTS
C1CHAPTER 3VARIATION OF CONTRACTS
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123Variation of rent
1
The landlord may vary the rent payable under a periodic standard 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 periodic standard contracts under which rent is payable.
Pt. 6 Ch. 3: power to amend conferred (1.9.2019) by Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019 (anaw 2), s. 30(2), Sch. 1 para. 11 (with s. 29); S.I. 2019/1150, art. 2(c)