SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
(FORM FOR RENT BOOK FOR ASSURED TENANCY OR ASSURED AGRICULTURAL OCCUPANCY)
Rent Book (Forms of Notice) (Amendment) Regulations 1988
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1988 No. 2198
LANDLORD AND TENANT, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Rent Book (Forms of Notice) (Amendment) Regulations 1988
Made 14th December 1988
Laid before Parliament 22th December 1988
Coming into force 15th January 1989
The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 5 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 19851, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Rent Book (Forms of Notice) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 15th January 1989.
2. The Rent Book (Forms of Notice) Regulations 19822are amended as follows—
(1) at the end of regulation 2 insert—
“and
“the 1988 Act” means the Housing Act 1988”;
(2) after regulation 3(1)(c) insert—
“(d)
“(d) if the premises are a dwelling house let on an assured tenancy or an assured agricultural occupancy within the meaning of the 1988 Act, the form set out in Part IV of the Schedule to these regulations”;
(3) in regulation 3(2) for “(a), (b) and (c)” substitute “(a) to (d)”;
(4) substitute for the words in paragraph 11 of the forms in Parts I and III of the Schedule and in paragraph 13 of the form in Part II of the Schedule “You may be entitled to get help to pay your rent and rates through the housing benefit scheme. Apply to your local council for details.”;
(5) for paragraphs 11 and 12 of the form in Part II of the Schedule substitute “11.If you have a protected shorthold tenancy or your tenancy was formerly a controlled one, special rules apply.”; and
(6) insert as Part IV of the Schedule the form in the Schedule to these Regulations.
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
13th December 1988
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
14th December 1988
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Rent Book (Forms of Notice) Regulations 1982 by adding a form of notice which (under section 5 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 as amended by the Housing Act 1988) is to be inserted in rent books or other similar documents. The new form of notice relates to premises let on or...
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