PART 4CHANGES TO PRESCRIBED FORMS

Consequential modifications to prescribed forms relating to secure tenancies13

1

Paragraph 10 of Schedule 29 (modifications of the Schedule to the Secure Tenancies (Notices) Regulations 19874: prescribed forms in relation to secure tenancies) is amended as follows.

2

In sub-paragraph (1) (modification of Part 1 of the Schedule), in paragraph (a)(ii) for ““three months from the date this Notice is served and also cannot be earlier than” substitute

a

four weeks from the date this Notice is served where Ground 2A in Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1985 is specified in the Notice and no other ground is specified, and

b

where paragraph (a) does not apply, six months from the date this Notice is served.

Court proceedings also cannot be begun earlier than

3

In sub-paragraph (2) (modification of Part 2 of the Schedule), in the first bullet point of the modification, in paragraph (b), for “, three months from the date this Notice is served” substitute

i

four weeks from the date this Notice is served where Ground 2A in Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1985 is specified in the notice and no other ground is specified, and

ii

where sub-paragraph (i) does not apply, six months from the date this Notice is served (unless proceedings are brought on Ground 2 in Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1985, in which case they may be begun immediately).