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PART 5STermination

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. 5 excluded by 2002 c. 29, s. 269A(5) (as inserted (27.4.2017 for specified purposes, 31.1.2018 in so far as not already in force) by Criminal Finances Act 2017 (c. 22), ss. 29(5), 58(1)(6); S.I. 2018/78, reg. 3(l))

CHAPTER 2STermination by tenant

48Tenant's ability to bring tenancy to an endS

(1)A tenant may bring to an end a tenancy which is a private residential tenancy by giving the landlord a notice which fulfils the requirements described in section 49.

(2)A tenancy comes to an end in accordance with subsection (1) on the day on which the notice states (in whatever terms) that it is to come to an end.

(3)But a tenancy does not come to an end in accordance with subsection (1) if—

(a)before the day mentioned in subsection (2), the tenant makes a request to the landlord to continue the tenancy after that day, and

(b)the landlord agrees to the request.

(4)In subsections (1) and (3), in a case where two or more persons jointly are the landlord under the tenancy, references to the landlord are to any of those persons.

Commencement Information

I1S. 48 in force at 1.12.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2, sch.