When a landlord gives a tenant a tenancy agreement – that agreement does not necessarily tell you the whole picture. There may be whole areas of law which the tenancy agreement does not mention but will nevertheless apply.

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There may also be terms written down in the agreement which don’t actually apply to you.

I know – its very confusing. Lets take a closer look

Things that apply whether the tenancy agreement says so or not

Because people’s homes are important, there are a lot of laws and regulations that have been passed to protect tenants.

As these sometimes involve the landlords in expense, there wouldn’t be much point in having them, if landlords could exclude them just by leaving them out of the written tenancy agreement.

So these laws specifically provide that they will apply whether or not they are written down in the tenancy agreement – and even if the landlord and tenant agree between themselves that they will not apply!

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