on the ‘term’ it states 12 months,
further down under Tenant agrees with landlord – ‘Rent and Charges’ 3.3 its states ‘this is a 6 month rolling contract. After 6 months if either party wishes to terminate the contract then one months notice must be given’
Can you untangle what this might mean? its 5 months into the contract and wish to serve s21
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In all honesty I don’t know!
I can only guess it was intended that 6 months be put in the term part.
It is possible to have a break clause but normally that’s a separate clause titled as such.
The worst part for us is that it sounds like it’s creating a 6 monthly periodic tenancy which if true, would require 6 months notice via section 21, not the usual two!
The one certain thing is that it says after 6 months. Therefore, all you can do is serve a normal section 21 from 6 months plus one day into the tenancy and see if it gets noticed by the court or tenant. Of course, the alternative is to wait and serve notice a couple of months before expiry of the term.
Where there is a conflict such as this, the court will start by trying to determine what the parties believed the intention of the clause was.
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