Requirements of Lease

The landlord must give the tenant a copy of the law for free within 10 days of the tenant moving in. If there are multiple tenants,

• it is satisfactory for the landlord to give the copy to one of them. The copy can be either in paper or electronic form, and the landlord can provide a web link to the online version.

A landlord must give the tenant a standard form of lease to sign, and both the landlord and tenant must keep a copy of the signed lease. If the landlord fails to provide these documents, the tenant can give notice and move out within three months.

If the landlord still hasn't provided the lease or law after a certain amount of time, the tenant can ask to pay rent to a third party until they receive the necessary documents.

The landlord must also give the tenant their name, address, or contact information.

Standard form of Lease

The standard form of a lease must contain certain provisions that are required by law.

Landlords and tenants can include additional benefits or obligations in the lease, as long as they don't conflict with the law. Any additional benefit or obligation must be included in both the landlord's and tenant's copies of the standard form of lease.

Any changes or deletions to the standard form of lease that are required by law are not allowed.

If a landlord and tenant enter into a written tenancy agreement but do not sign a standard form of lease, they are still considered to have done so, and all the provisions of the law and the standard form of lease apply.

• The same applies to oral tenancy agreements that do not have a signed standard form of lease.

NS RTA s.7, 8