Section 21 advice - coming to end of fixed term AST

9wizard9

Hi - I'm hoping to get some advice from people about the wording at the top of our tenancy agreement so I can understand whether we have already been served a Section 21 notice. I'm hoping to be able to move onto a periodic tenancy at the end of the fixed term agreement, so I'm hoping not.

The wording at the top of the agreement is as follows:

"This agreement is intended to create an assured shorthold tenancy as defined in section 19A of the Housing Act 1988 (as amended by the Housing Act 2004) and the provisions for the recovery of possession by the Landlord in section 21 thereof apply accordingly"

I'm assuming that this is simply saying that the Landlord can serve a section 21 notice to regain possession, not that he already has.

Anyone able to clarify this for me?

Many thanks in advance...

Fire_Fox

That isn't a section 21, it needs to be dated and is usually a separate piece of paper. A section 21 can't be served until your deposit is lodged. if you run a search on this board or use Google there is plenty of information available.

9wizard9

Thanks Fire Fox - that's what I thought from reading all the posts on here, but just wanted to get a second opinion for piece of mind. I'd no real reason to think that we'd been served notice - the Letting Agent have been very straight forward so far, but they've just sent us a reminder where they're encouraging us to sign up for another fixed term (so they get their admin fee!) - just wanted to be sure we'd not already had the Section 21 before I started asking them if we could go on to periodic tenancy.

Thanks again.