The Landlord and Tenant (Notices) Regulations 1967

Made: 8th December 1967

Laid before Parliament: 15th December 1967

Coming into Operation: 19th December 1967

I, Gerald, Baron Gardiner, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 66 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, hereby make the following Regulations:—

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Landlord and Tenant (Notices) Regulations 1967, and shall come into operation on 19th December 1967.

2

The Interpretation Act 1889, applies to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

3

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “the principal Regulations” means the Landlord and Tenant (Notices) Regulations 1957[^f00001].

4

For Forms 1 and 2 there shall be substituted the forms so numbered in Appendix 1 to these Regulations.

5

Form 3 shall be amended as follows:—

• (a) In Note 2, after the words “exceeding 21 years” there shall be inserted the words “at a rent which is less than two-thirds of the rateable value of the premises”.

• (b) In Note 3, for the word “receipt” there shall be substituted the words “the giving”.

6

Forms 7 and 9 shall be amended as follows:—

• (a) In paragraph 2 for the word “receiving” there shall be substituted the words “the giving of”;

• (b) In Note 2 for the word “receiving” there shall be substituted the words “the giving of”, and for the word “receipt” there shall be substituted the words “the giving”.

7

Where a Notice is given for a purpose for which the use of Form 7, 8 or 9 is required by the principal Regulations, and it is given in respect of a tenancy which is a long tenancy at a low rent for the purposes of Part 1 of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 and the tenant is not a company or other artificial person, the Notice shall be in Form 7, 8 or 9 as amended in accordance with the amendments set out in Appendix 2 to these Regulations.

8

Nothing in these Regulations shall invalidate any Notice served before the 1st January 1968 which complies with the requirements of the principal Regulations, or any Notice in Form 7 or 9 served before 1st March 1968 which does not comply with the requirements of paragraph 6 of of these Regulations.

Signed

Gardiner, C — Dated 8th December 1967

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Landlord and Tenant (Notices) Regulations 1957.

In order to take account of certain provisions of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 revised forms of notice are prescribed for use, for the purposes of Part I of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, when terminating a long tenancy at a low rent of residential premises; and additions are required to be made to the forms of notice used for the purposes of Part II of that Act when they are used for terminating a business tenancy which is a long tenancy at a low rent and is held by a tenant who is not a company or other artificial person.

Amendments are also made to the forms of notice to terminate business tenancies used for general purposes.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: (1957 I, p. 1230).