Prescribed Form
- The way statute determines a document must be written.
- This will usually be an important notice e.g. a notice to quit.
- To end a rental joint AST tenancy on the due date, you must issue a notice to quit at least two months prior to expiration of the tenancy written in the prescribed form.
- You must also issue each named joint tenant with an individual notice to quit.
- At Leydon lettings we back this up with an email containing the information in prescribed form advising of the recent postal delivery.
- It would then be difficult to argue non-receipt if received by more than one means.
- Many landlords and even some agents fail to do this.
- The consequences could be catastrophic at the end of a tenancy, particularly when the next group are standing outside and cannot move in... why? Because the previous tenants are still sitting watching TV whilst calmly drinking a night cap before going to bed, perfectly legitimately, awaiting you, whilst pulling your hair out, to serve the proper notice in the prescribed form within time limits!
Published: 11 November 2013
Last Updated: 17 November 2021