The Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) Regulations 2015
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2015/1646 |
2015No. 1646
LANDLORD AND TENANT, ENGLAND
The Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) Regulations 2015
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The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 8(3), 21(8), 21A and 21B of the Housing Act 1988( 1), makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement, interpretation and application
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st October 2015.
(2) In these Regulations "the Act" means the Housing Act 1988.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), these Regulations apply in relation to an assured shorthold tenancy of a dwelling-house in England granted on or after 1st October 2015.
(4) These Regulations do not apply to an assured shorthold tenancy that came into being under section 5(2) of the Housing Act 1988 on or after 1st October 2015 on the coming to an end of an assured shorthold tenancy that was granted before that date.
Compliance with prescribed legal requirements
2.-(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the requirements prescribed( 2) for the purposes of section 21A of the Act are the requirements contained in-
(a) regulation 6(5) of the Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012( 3) (requirement to provide an energy performance certificate to a tenant or buyer free of charge); and(b) paragraph (6) or (as the case may be) paragraph (7) of regulation 36 of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998( 4) (requirement to provide tenant with a gas safety certificate).(2) For the purposes of section 21A of the Act, the requirement prescribed by paragraph (1)(b)is limited to the requirement on a landlord to give a copy of the relevant record to the tenant and the 28 day period for compliance with that requirement does not apply.
Requirement for landlord to provide prescribed information
3.-(1) A landlord under an assured shorthold tenancy of a dwelling-house in England, or a person acting on behalf of such a landlord, must give the tenant under that tenancy the information mentioned in paragraph (2).
(2) The information is the version of the document entitled "How to rent: the checklist for renting in England", as published by the Department for Communities and Local Government, that has effect for the time being.
(3) The information may be provided to the tenant-
(a) in hard copy; or(b) where the tenant has notified the landlord, or a person acting on behalf of the landlord, of an e-mail address at which the tenant is content to accept service of notices and other documents given under or in connection with the tenancy, by e-mail.(4) Paragraph (1)does not require a landlord, or person acting on behalf of the landlord, who has provided the tenant with the document mentioned in paragraph (2)to supply a further copy of the document each time a different version of that document is published during the tenancy.
(5) This regulation does not apply-
(a) where the landlord is a private registered provider of social housing; or(b) where-(i) the tenancy ("the new tenancy") is a replacement tenancy;(ii) the landlord, or a person acting on behalf of the landlord,...To continue reading
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