Private residential tenancy: prescribed notices and forms
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- Housing and Social Justice Directorate
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Forms and guidance including notices to leave and rent increases in relation to the private residential tenancy.
If a tenant has a private residential tenancy, the law states that they and their landlord must use certain forms/notices for certain purposes. These forms/notices are provided below, along with associated guidance for tenants and landlords. If you are giving one of these documents to a tenant or landlord, you should also provide them with the relevant guidance notes to help them understand what the document means for them and what they can do about it.
Separate guidance notes for landlords and tenants are provided below with the notice to leave, rent-increase notice, tenant's notice of an application to the First-tier Tribunal and the sub-tenant's notice to leave.
The Private Residential Tenancies prescribed notices and forms are:
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notice to leave (and related guidance notes for tenants and landlords)
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rent-increase notice (and related guidance notes for tenants and landlords)
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tenant's notice to landlord of intention to apply to First-tier Tribunal (and related guidance notes for tenants and landlords)
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sub-tenant's notice to leave (and related guidance notes for tenants and landlords)
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rent increase referral by a tenant to a Rent Officer
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improvements application by a landlord to a Rent Officer for a rent increase in a rent pressure zone.
The Scottish Government has produced online tools to help users to create and download the following notices:
For landlords:
For tenants:
Notice to leave
Guidance notes for tenants on the notice to leave.pdf
- File type
- 4 page PDF
- File size
- 146.5 kB
Guidance notes for landlords on the notice to leave.pdf
- File type
- 3 page PDF
- File size
- 145.4 kB
Rent increase
Guidance note for tenants on the rent increase notice.pdf
- File type
- 3 page PDF
- File size
- 246.3 kB
Guidance note for landlords on the rent increase notice.pdf
- File type
- 3 page PDF
- File size
- 149.2 kB
Sub-tenants
Guidance notes for sub-tenants on the notice to leave.pdf
- File type
- 4 page PDF
- File size
- 143.7 kB
Guidance notes for head landlords on the sub-tenant's notice to leave.pdf
- File type
- 4 page PDF
- File size
- 242.7 kB
First-Tier tribunal
Tenant notification to landlord of intention to apply to First-tier Tribunal.pdf
- File type
- 2 page PDF
- File size
- 177.8 kB
Guidance notes for tenant on notification of intention to apply to First-tier Tribunal.pdf
- File type
- 4 page PDF
- File size
- 235.3 kB
Guidance notes for landlord on notification from tenant of intention to apply to First-tier Tribunal.pdf
- File type
- 3 page PDF
- File size
- 225.4 kB
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Related information
- Private residential tenancy overview
- Private residential tenancy: information for tenants
- Private residential tenancy: information for landlords
- Private residential tenancy: model agreement (PDF version)
- Private residential tenancy: model agreement (online tool)
- Private residential tenancy: easy read notes for tenants
- Private residential tenancy: statutory terms supporting notes
- First published
- 3 October 2020
- Last updated
- 29 March 2022 - show all updates
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Minor update
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Updated to reflect latest Coronavirus legislation
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