Section 123: Variation of rent

Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 · 2016 c.1

Part 6: PROVISIONS APPLYING ONLY TO PERIODIC STANDARD CONTRACTS — CHAPTER 3: VARIATION OF CONTRACTS

123(1)

The landlord may vary the rent payable under a periodic standard contract by giving the contract-holder a notice setting out a new rent to take effect on the date specified in the notice.

123(2)

The period between the day on which the notice is given to the contract-holder and the specified date may not be less than two months.

123(3)

Subject to that—

(a) the first notice may specify any date, and

(b) subsequent notices must specify a date which is not less than one year after the last date on which a new rent took effect.

123(4)

This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all periodic standard contracts under which rent is payable, except a periodic standard contract which is a housing association tenancy.

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