The Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I.2015/1646 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 1725

Landlord And Tenant, England

The Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Made

27th September 2015

Laid before Parliament

29th September 2015

Coming into force

30th September 2015

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 21(8) of the Housing Act 1988(1), makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 30th September 2015.

Amendment of the Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) Regulations 2015

2.—(1) The Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) Regulations 2015(2) are amended as follows.

(2) For the form in the Schedule substitute the form in the Schedule to these Regulations.

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

Brandon Lewis

Minister of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

27th September 2015

Regulation 2(2)

SCHEDULE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations substitute a new form for the form contained in the Schedule to the Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1646) in order to correct an error which was identified in the original form. A number of other drafting and formatting changes have also been made to the new form to make it more accessible to users.

The impact will be as set out in the impact assessment for the Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) Regulations 2015 and this instrument by itself has no additional impact. The impact assessment for the Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) Regulations 2015 will be available from https://www.gov.uk/dclg or by contacting Mark Malvisi on 0303 444 3220.

(1)

1988 c. 50. Section 21(8) was inserted by section 37 of the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20).