Requesting directors of company landlord | LTA 1985 s. 2
Tenants of corporate landlords can request names and addresses of directors and the secretary. Landlords must respond within 21 days or face a level 4 fine.
Where a tenant is supplied under section 1 with the name and address of his landlord and the landlord is a body corporate, he may make a further written request to the landlord for the name and address of every director and of the secretary of the landlord. The landlord shall supply the tenant with a written statement of the information requested within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which he receives the request. A request under this section is duly made to the landlord if it is made to— an agent of the landlord, or a person who demands the rent of the premises concerned: and any such agent or person to whom such a request is made shall forward it to the landlord as soon as may be. A landlord who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a request under this section, and a person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him by subsection (3), commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
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What it actually says
When a tenant has been supplied with the name and address of a corporate landlord, the tenant may make a further written request for the name and address of every director and the secretary of that landlord.
The request is duly made if given to an agent of the landlord or to the person who demands rent. That agent or rent collector must forward the request to the landlord as soon as possible. The landlord must then provide a written statement containing the requested information within 21 days, beginning with the day they receive the request.
A landlord or agent who fails to comply without reasonable excuse commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
When it applies
- A tenant writes to their letting agent asking for the official addresses of all directors of the corporate entity that owns the property.
- A tenant sends a formal written notice to the rent collector requesting the name and address of the company secretary of their corporate landlord.
- An agent who receives a tenant's written request for director details forwards the request to the corporate landlord as soon as possible.
What this section does not say
- Demanding disclosure of landlord names when the landlord is an individual person rather than a body corporate, which is governed by section 1.
- Demanding summary information regarding service charge costs or accounts, which is governed by section 21.
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