Section 104 Variation of rentI1
The landlord may vary the rent payable under a secure contract by giving the contract-holder a notice setting out a new rent to take effect on the date specified in the notice.
The period between the day on which the notice is given to the contract-holder and the specified date may not be less than two months.
Subject to that—
the first notice may specify any date, and
subsequent notices must specify a date which is not less than one year after the last date on which a new rent took effect.
This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all secure contracts under which rent is payable F1, except a secure contract which is a housing association tenancy.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in s. 104(4) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Housing Association Tenancies: Fundamental Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/799), regs. 1, 5(2) (as amended by S.I. 2022/906, arts. 1(2), 14)
Commencement
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S. 104 in force at 1.12.2022 by S.I. 2022/906, art. 2