The Landlord and Tenant (Notices) (Revocations) (England) Regulations 2015

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 1

Landlord And Tenant, England

The Landlord and Tenant (Notices) (Revocations) (England) Regulations 2015

Made

5th January 2015

Laid before Parliament

8th January 2015

Coming into force

4th February 2015

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred by section 66 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954(1), makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Landlord and Tenant (Notices) (Revocations) (England) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 4th February 2015.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.

Revocations

2.  The following instruments are revoked in England—

(a) The Landlord and Tenant (Notices) Regulations 1957(2); and

(b) The Landlord and Tenant (Notices) Regulations 1967(3).

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

Brandon Lewis

Minister of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

5th January 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke the Landlord and Tenant (Notices) Regulations 1957 (“the 1957 Regulations”) and the Landlord and Tenant (Notices) Regulations 1967 in England.

The 1957 Regulations contain various prescribed forms relating to the security of tenure provisions for residential tenancies under Part 1 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (c.56). Forms 1, 2 and 4 are redundant because the tenancies to which they relate have all been terminated. Equivalents to Form 3 (notice requiring a tenant or sub-tenant of residential property to give information about sub-tenancies), Form 5 (notice by competent landlord requiring consent of other landlords to notice under section 4(1)) and Form 6 (notice by competent landlord requiring consent of other landlord to agreement under Part 1) are now contained in the Long Residential Tenancies (Supplemental Forms) Regulations 1997. The 1957 Regulations are therefore redundant.

The Landlord and Tenant (Notices) Regulations 1967 simply made amendments to the forms contained within the 1957 Regulations and are also therefore redundant.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.

(1)

1954 c.56. The functions of the Secretary of State under section 66, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). By virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32), the functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.

(2)

S.I. 1957/1157.

(3)

S.I. 1967/1831.