Terms & Conditions - Tenancy Terms & Conditions
- Website terms are likely to act as a guide summarising the main terms.
- The terms of the tenancy agreement signed by all parties are binding on all.
- Spoken statements (parol evidence) are unlikely to be binding particularly when a written contract (tenancy agreement) is provided.
- (Do not confuse terms and conditions with academic termsor a tenancy duration i.e. a tenancy term.
- An EU Directive in 1999 was introduced to protect consumers against one-sided tenancy agreements using unfair standard terms.
- A tenancy agreement must be written in plain clear language and easily understood.
- A contract term if held unfair is not binding. E.g. if it a term puts either party to the agreement at a disadvantage.
- If the absence of an unfair term renders an entire agreement meaningless the whole contract becomes void.
Published: 11 November 2013
Last Updated: 17 November 2021