The Mobile Homes (Written Statement) (England) Regulations 2011

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mobile Homes (Written Statement) (England) Regulations 2011 and come into force on 30th April 2011.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to any written statement given on or after 30th April 2011 with respect to an agreement—

(a) for the stationing of a mobile home on a protected site(1) in England, and

(b) to which the 1983 Act will apply.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1983 Act” means the Mobile Homes Act 1983;

“written statement” means the written statement that the owner of a protected site is required by section 1(2) of the 1983 Act to give to the proposed occupier.

Written statement: prescribed requirements

3.  The requirements with which a written statement must comply for the purposes of section 1(2) of the 1983 Act (in addition to the requirements of sections 1(2)(a) to (d) of the 1983 Act) are—

(a) that it must contain—

(i) the note preceding Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations, and

(ii) the information mentioned in Parts 1 to 3 of that Schedule (so far as not already required by section 1(2)(a) to (d) of the 1983 Act), and

(b) that it must be in the form set out in that Schedule or a form substantially to the same effect.

Revocation

4.  The Mobile Homes (Written Statement) (England) Regulations 2006(2) are revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Grant Shapps

Minister of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

4th April 2011