The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Residential Tenancies: Protection from Eviction) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Amendment to the Notices to Quit etc. (Prescribed Information) Regulations 1988

16.—(1) The Schedule to the Notice to Quit etc. (Prescribed Information) Regulations 1988(1) is to be read, in relation to a Rent Act notice to quit given in relation to premises in Wales during the relevant period, as if after paragraph 2 there were inserted—

“Prescribed information where less than 6 months’ notice has been given

3.   Where a notice to quit has been given less than 6 months before the date on which it is to take effect, the following information must be given—

• “The notice to quit has been given less than 6 months before the date on which it is to take effect on the basis that the landlord believes that the circumstance specified in Case 2 in Schedule 15 to the Rent Act 1977 applies (conduct which is a nuisance or annoyance to adjoining occupiers, or dwelling-houses used for immoral or illegal purposes).””

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) “Rent Act notice to quit” means a notice to quit relating to a tenancy that is a protected tenancy for the purposes of the Rent Act 1977(2) (see section 1 of that Act), and

(b) “relevant period” means the period beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force and ending with the date specified in paragraph 1(b)(ii) of Schedule 29.

(1)

S.I. 1988/2201.

(2)

1977 c. 42.