Consultation Paper on the General Law of the Landlord and Tenant

in service charges, so as to ensure that they are not used to secure forthe landlord additional profit; (2) requiring full information about theservice charge scheme to be provided to all tenants in the particulardevelopment in a readily understood manner; (3) requiring full annualaccounts to be furnished to tenants explaining exactly how thecharges have been calculated and prohibiting collection orenforcement unless and until the accounts are furnished; (4) providinga statutory scheme for arbitration or resolution of disputes. 9 TheCommission must emphasise that these are simply illustrative of thetype of statutory provision which might be appropriate. TheCommission must reserve its position at this stage on the fundamentalissues of what form any legislation should take, and its scope andcontent, until the consideration of multi-unit developments referred toearlier has progressed much further. Only then can a decision betaken as to whether the appropriate legislation should be included inproposed legislation to reform landlord and tenant law or in speciallegislation to deal with multi-unit developments. The Commissionprovisionally recommends that some legislation on the subject ofservice charges may be appropriate, but that it must reserve itsposition on its form, scope and content until it has carried out afurther review of multi-unit developments.9to compliance with the landlord’s or tenant’s obligations or to the legalrelations between the parties: see section 74(3) of the Bill.This may be achieved for residential developments by the 2003 Bill:footnote 8 above.127