Section 4 — Landlord and Tenant Act 1985: Provision of rent books.

Provision of rent books. 4 1 Where a tenant has a right to occupy premises as a residence in consideration of a rent payable weekly, the landlord shall provide a rent book or other similar document for use in respect of the premises.

2 Subsection (1) does not apply to premises if the rent includes a payment in respect of board and the value of that board to the tenant forms a substantial proportion of the whole rent.

3 In this section and sections 5 to 7—

a “ tenant ” includes a statutory tenant and a person having a contractual right to occupy the premises;

and b “ landlord ”, in relation to a person having such a contractual right, means the person who granted the right or any successor in title of his, as the case may require.

4 This section does not apply to occupation contracts within the meaning of section 7 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1) .