# Renters’ Rights Act 2025, Section 20: Notices to quit by tenants under assured tenancies: timing

Extent: E+W

(1) Section 5 of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 (notices to quit) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1), for paragraph (b) substitute—
“(b) it satisfies subsection (1ZA).”
(3) After subsection (1) insert—
“(1ZA) A notice to quit satisfies this subsection—
(a) where it is given by a tenant in relation to premises let under an assured tenancy, if it is given—
(i) not less than any length of time before the date on which the notice is to take effect, not exceeding two months, that the landlord has agreed to in writing, or
(ii) in the absence of agreement under sub-paragraph (i), not less than two months before the date on which the notice is to take effect;
(b) otherwise, if it is given not less than four weeks before the date on which it is to take effect.
But in relation to landlords under assured tenancies see section 5(1) of the Housing Act 1988 (notice to quit by landlord is of no effect).
(1ZB) In the case of a joint assured tenancy, an agreement under subsection (1ZA)(a)(i) is not valid unless it is made between the landlord and all of the tenants.
(1ZC) That does not affect the validity of any notice to quit premises let under a joint assured tenancy that is given by only one or some of the tenants.
(1ZD) In this section “joint assured tenancy” means an assured tenancy where two or more persons are tenants under the tenancy.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/section/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/section-20
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