Explanatory note

Under the provisions of section 1 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1962, where a person has the right to occupy any premises as a residence in consideration of a rent which is payable weekly, it is the duty of the landlord to provide a rent book or other similar document for use in respect of the premises.

These regulations, which supersede the Rent Book (Forms of Notice) Regulations 1976, revise the notices which, under the 1962 Act, are to be contained in rent books or other similar documents provided in pursuance of that Act, in the case of:—

(1)premises occupied by virtue of a restricted contract under the Rent Act 1977;

(2)premises let on or subject to a protected or statutory tenancy under the Rent Act 1977; and

(3)premises subject to a statutory tenancy as defined in the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976.

These notices are revised to provide a form of notice for case (3) above (the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 was passed after the 1976 Regulations were made) and to take account in particular of changes in the Rent Act 1977 effected by Part II of the Housing Act 1980 (c.51).