There are various legal stages that a landlord must follow in order to recover unpaid rent from a tenant/s. These stages also have to be adhered to if the tenant/s breach any other terms of the tenancy agreement.
The first stage in this process is the issuing of a Section 8 Notice ( full name: "Section 8 Possession Notice"). This is used by a landlord to terminate an Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreement during the fixed term.
The landlord cannot evict the tenant from a flat or house without obtaining an order for possession issued by a court, but before applying for this, the landlord must serve a Section 8 Possession Notice to the tenant. Briefly, the requirements of section 8 are:
-the landlord or, in the case of joint landlords, at least one of them, has served on the tenant a notice in accordance with this section and the proceedings are begun within the time-limits prescribed in the Act and stated on the notice
-the notice must be given in the prescribed form - available from legal stationers,
-the notice must specify grounds why the landlord requires possession.
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