Paragraph 28

After section 143MA insert—

“Default flexible tenancies when no notice given under section 143MA

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(1)

This section applies where—

(a)

a landlord has the power to serve a notice under section 143MA on the tenant under a demoted tenancy but fails to do so, and

(b)

the tenancy comes to an end on or after the day on which paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016 comes fully into force.

(2)

On ceasing to be a demoted tenancy, the tenancy becomes a secure tenancy for a fixed term of 5 years that is a flexible tenancy.

(3)

The terms of the new tenancy are the same as those of the tenancy that it replaces, so far as those terms are compatible with—

(a)

a tenancy for a fixed term of 5 years, and

(b)

the statutory provisions relating to flexible tenancies (within the meaning given by section 143MA(5).”