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2002 No. 2227

LANDLORD AND TENANT, ENGLAND

The Long Residential Tenancies (Principal Forms) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002

  Made 29th August 2002 
  Coming into force 30th September 2002 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989[1], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent
     1.  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Long Residential Tenancies (Principal Forms) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 30th September 2002.

    (2) These Regulations extend to England only.

Amendment
    
2.  - (1) Forms 1 and 2 in the Schedule to the Long Residential Tenancies (Principal Forms) Regulations 1997[2] are amended as follows.

    (2) For notes 2 and 3 at the end of each form, substitute - 

Application
     3. Nothing in these Regulations affects the validity of a notice served before the coming into force of these Regulations.



Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State


Tony McNulty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

29th August 2002



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations amend two forms which are prescribed for the purposes of Schedule 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (security of tenure on ending of long residential tenancies).

The forms affected are set out in the Schedule to the Long Residential Tenancies (Principal Forms) Regulations 1997. Changes are made to the notes at the end of Forms 1 and 2 following the amendment of section 16 of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 by section 143 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (which was brought into force on 26th July by S.I. 2002/1912). There are other drafting changes.


Notes:

[1] 1989 c. 42; see the definition of "prescribed" in section 45(1) of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50), which has effect by virtue of paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 10 to the 1989 Act. The Secretary of State can exercise the power under this paragraph only in relation to England: see article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back

[2] S.I. 1997/3008.back

[3] Paragraph 1(2A) of Schedule 10 was inserted by paragraph 31 of the Schedule to the References to Rating (Housing) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/434).back



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  Prepared 5 September 2002


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