1. These regulations may be cited as the Rent Book (Forms of Notice) Regulations 1982 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1983.

2. In these regulations:-

"the 1962 Act" means the Landlord and Tenant Act 1962;

"the 1976 Act" means the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976; and

"the 1977 Act" means the Rent Act 1977.

3.-(1) The prescribed form in which, under section 2(1) of the 1962 Act, notice or particulars are required to be contained in a rent book or other similar document provided in pursuance of section 1 of the 1962 Act shall be as follows:-

(a)if the premises are occupied by virtue of a restricted contract within the meaning of the 1977 Act, the form set out in Part I of the Schedule to these regulations;

(b)if the premises are a dwelling house let on or subject to a protected or statutory tenancy within the meaning of the 1977 Act, the form set out in Part II of the Schedule to these regulations; and

(c)if the premises are a dwelling house subject to a statutory tenancy as defined in the 1976 Act, the form set out in Part III of the Schedule to these regulations

or, in each case, a form substantially to the same effect.

(2) In the cases referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) above, such rent book or similar document shall contain notice of the matters set out in the appropriate prescribed form, in addition to the name and address of the landlord and the particulars required by section 2(1) of the 1962 Act.

4. The Rent Book (Forms of Notice) Regulations 1976 are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

PART I

(FORM FOR RENT BOOK FOR RESTRICTED CONTRACT)

(FORM FOR RENT BOOK FOR RESTRICTED CONTRACT)

PART II

(FORM FOR RENT BOOK FOR PROTECTED OR STATUTORY TENANCY)

(FORM FOR RENT BOOK FOR PROTECTED OR STATUTORY TENANCY)

PART III

(FORM FOR RENT BOOK FOR TENANCY UNDER THE RENT (AGRICULTURE) ACT 1976)

(FORM FOR RENT BOOK FOR TENANCY UNDER THE RENT (AGRICULTURE) ACT 1976)

(FORM FOR RENT BOOK FOR TENANCY UNDER THE RENT (AGRICULTURE) ACT 1976)

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).