The Long Residential Tenancies (Principal Forms) Regulations 1997

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Long Residential Tenancies (Principal Forms) Regulations and shall come into force on 15th January 1998.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations, any reference to a numbered form is a reference to the form bearing that number in the Schedule, or to a form substantially to the same effect.

Forms

3.  The forms prescribed for the purposes specified below shall be as follows—

(a) for a notice under paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 terminating a long residential tenancy and proposing an assured monthly periodic tenancy, form 1;

(b) for a notice under paragraph 4(1) of that Schedule terminating a long residential tenancy and proposing to apply to court for possession, form 2;

(c) for a notice under paragraph 6(1) of that Schedule proposing an interim monthly rent, form 3;

(d) for a notice under paragraph 10(1) of that Schedule proposing different rent or terms for an assured periodic tenancy, form 4;

(e) for a notice under paragraph 10(2) of that Schedule referring to a rent assessment committee a notice proposing different rent or terms for an assured periodic tenancy, form 5; and

(f) for a notice under section 41(2) of the Housing Act 1988, as applied by paragraph 12(1) of that Schedule, requiring a landlord or tenant to give information to a rent assessment committee, form 6.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Hilary Armstrong

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions

12th December 1997

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Win Griffiths

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

16th December 1997