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Section 8 - documents required?

Started by aidanledgard, September 21, 2021, 07:14:35 AM

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aidanledgard

Hi

I'm serving a Section 8. Do I serve GSC/EPC/EICR how to rent, AST & prescribed info alongside, as we do with a Section 21? I can't find any guidance stating so.

thanks all

Inspector

Maybe join the NRLA.  They have all sorts all information and guidance.

Simon Pambin

Quote from: aidanledgard on September 21, 2021, 07:14:35 AM
Do I serve GSC/EPC/EICR how to rent, AST & prescribed info alongside, as we do with a Section 21?

Those aren't really things you serve with a Section 21 anyway. They're things you provide to the tenant at the prescribed times throughout the tenancy.

That said, there isn't the equivalent bar on serving a valid Section 8 notice if they haven't been provided. If you didn't issue them when you were supposed to then it may weaken your position in front of a judge if you're issuing the Section 8 on anything other than mandatory grounds, though.