Service on tenant’s agent

Yenula Properties Ltd v Naidu (CA TLR 5 June)

One of the conditions which an assured shorthold tenancy has to fulfill is that before the tenancy is entered into s20(2)(c) of the Housing Act 1988 requires that a notice stating that the tenancy is to be an assured shorthold tenancy must be served by the landlord ‘on the person who [was] to be the tenant under that tenancy’. Such a notice may validly be served on the tenant’s authorised agent and does not have to be served on the tenant personally.