PART 5PROVISIONS APPLYING ONLY TO SECURE CONTRACTS
CHAPTER 2VARIATION OF CONTRACTS
I1104Variation of rent
1
The landlord may vary the rent payable under a secure contract by giving the contract-holder a notice setting out a new rent to take effect on the date specified in the notice.
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.
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.
4
This section is a fundamental provision which is incorporated as a term of all secure contracts under which rent is payable F1, except a secure contract which is a housing association tenancy.