Statutory Instruments
1997 No. 3005

LANDLORD AND TENANT, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Long Residential Tenancies (Supplemental Forms) Regulations 1997

Made
16th December 1997

Laid before Parliament
22nd December 1997

Coming into force
15th January 1998

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 sections 18 and 66 of and paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954(1), as applied by section 186(5) of and paragraph 19 of Schedule 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989(2), and now vested in them(3) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations—

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Long Residential Tenancies (Supplemental Forms) Regulations and shall come into force on 15th January 1998.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1954 Act” means the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954;

“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989; and

any reference to a numbered form is a reference to the form bearing that number in the Schedule, or to a form substantially to the same effect.

Forms

3.  The forms prescribed for the purposes specified below shall be as follows—

(a)for a notice under section 18 of the 1954 Act (as applied by section 186(5) of the 1989 Act) requiring information about sub-tenancies, form 7;

(b)for a notice under paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the 1954 Act (as applied by paragraph 19 of Schedule 10 to the 1989 Act) requiring a landlord to consent to the giving of a notice under paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 10 to the 1989 Act terminating a long residential tenancy, form 8; and

(c)for a notice under paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the 1954 Act (as applied by paragraph 19 of Schedule 10 to the 1989 Act) requiring a landlord to consent to the making of an agreement with the tenant under Schedule 10 to the 1989 Act, form 9.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
12th December 1997

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Win Griffiths
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
16th December 1997

Regulation 3

SCHEDULEPrescribed Forms

Form 7(long residential tenancies)Landlord’s Notice Requiring Information about Sub-tenancies of Residential Property

Form 8(Long Residential Tenancies)Landlord’s Notice Requiring Consent of Other Landlord to Notice Terminating Long Residential Tenancy

Form 9(long residential tenancies)Landlord’s Notice Requiring Consent of Other Landlord to Agreement with Tenant under Schedule 10 to Local Government and Housing Act 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations prescribe forms of notice to be used for the purposes of section 186 of and Schedule 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (security of tenure on ending of long residential tenancies). The forms prescribed are those specified in regulation 3 and set out in the Schedule (or forms substantially to the same effect).
Forms 1 to 6 are prescribed for the purposes of Schedule 10 in the Long Residential Tenancies (Principal Forms) Regulations 1997.


(1)
2 & 3 Eliz. 2 c.56.

(2)
1989 c. 42.

(3)
S.I. 1974/1896.