[F1143MProvision of informationE+W
(1)This section applies to a local housing authority or a housing action trust if it is the landlord of a demoted tenancy.
(2)The landlord must from time to time publish information about the demoted tenancy in such form as it thinks best suited to explain in simple terms and so far as it considers appropriate the effect of—
(a)the express terms of the demoted tenancy;
(b)the provisions of this Chapter;
(c)the provisions of sections 11 to 16 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (landlord’s repairing obligations).
(3)The landlord must ensure that information published under subsection (2) is, so far as is reasonably practicable, kept up to date.
(4)The landlord must supply the tenant with—
(a)a copy of the information published under subsection (2);
(b)a written statement of the terms of the tenancy, so far as they are neither expressed in the lease or written tenancy agreement (if any) nor implied by law.
(5)The statement required by subsection (4)(b) must be supplied on the grant of the tenancy or as soon as practicable afterwards.]
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 5 Ch. 1A inserted (30.6.2004 for E., 30.9.2004 for W. for specified purposes, 30.4.2005 for W. so far as not already in force) by Anti Social Behaviour Act 2003 (c. 38), s. 93, Sch. 1 para. 1; S.I. 2004/1502, art. 2(a)(iii); S.I. 2004/2557, art. 2(a)(ii); S.I. 2005/1225, art. 2(b)