New rules on when to serve a Section 21 notice

From October 2015 The Deregulation Act 2015 s36 will bring in new legislation to set time limits on when a Section 21 notice can be served.

Landlords and letting agents will not be able to issue a section 21 notice at the commencement of a tenancy, this is currently normal practice.

A section 21 will not be able to be served on a tenant until 4 months have pasted from the start of the tenancy.

For Periodic tenancy, a section 21 now no longer needs to end on the last day of a rent period

For example if rent is due on 12th the last day of a period would be 11th.

This has been removed by the insertion of subsection (4za) into Section 21 of Housing Act 1988