The Agricultural Holdings (Forms of Notice to Pay Rent or to Remedy) Regulations 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke and replace the Agricultural Holdings (Forms of Notice to Pay Rent or to Remedy) Regulations 1984 (“the 1984 Regulations”). The Regulations bring up to date references in the 1984 Regulations to provisions which have been consolidated by the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and the Agricultural Holdings (Arbitration on Notices) Order 1987 (“the 1987 Order”).

The Regulations continue to prescribe—

(a) a form to be used by the landlord of an agricultural holding when serving on his tenant a notice to pay rent due for the purposes of Case D in Part I of Schedule 3 to that Act (regulation 3 and Form 1 in Schedule);

(b) two different forms for the notice to remedy breaches of the terms and conditions of the tenancy for the purposes of the said Case D according to whether or not any work of repair, maintenance or replacement is required to remedy the breach (regulation 4 and Forms 2 and 3 in Schedule).

The reference in the Notes to the Forms to the time-limit in article 10 of the 1987 Order (appointment of arbitrator) reflects an amendment made by that article.

Note 4 to Form 2 has been expanded to give an example of a further question which may be referred to arbitration.