Amendments to Forms 1 and 2 of the schedule to the Long Residential Tenancies (Principal Forms) Regulations 1997, prescribed for the purposes of Sched 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (security of tenure at the end of long residential tenancies). Changes in the notes, made necessary by amendments to s16 of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 by s143 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002.
A notice purportedly served under s4 of Part 1 of the 1954 Act on an earlier tenant who had assigned to the current tenant was not valid. The reaction of the reasonable tenant upon receiving the notice would be to think that it was meant for another person.
The rent assessment committee has power to determine a rent higher than 25,000 under schedule 10 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 even though the tenancy would then cease to be assured.
