A New Deposit Prescribed Information Form for Wales

When a landlord takes a deposit from a tenant (or contract holder in Wales) there are two really important things he needs to do:

• Protect the money in a government-authorised deposit scheme, and
• Serve prescribed information

If this is not done then tenants can claim a penalty payment and section 21 notices will be invalid.

What about Wales?

This is the same under the new legislation in Wales as it is in England.  And failure to comply will invalidate any of the Welsh ‘no-fault’ eviction notices.

However, as the deposit rules now fall under different legislation, this means that the forms need to be amended.

Most deposit schemes provide their own forms for landlords but if they don’t we now have a form for Welsh landlords.  Although we have called it a ‘Required Information’ form as that is the wording used in the legislation.

Landlord Law members will find the new form on the Welsh Documents and Forms page in the pdf forms section.

Although if your scheme has a form for you to use which is suitable for deposits taken under the Welsh legislation, you should use that.

Our English form

I have taken the opportunity to do some minor amends to our English form. 

This can be found, as always on the main Documents and Forms page.

If you need another form

The new Welsh form was developed after a request from one of our members.  If you are a member and need any other form, let us know and we will see what we can do.