This standard document provides example wording for the details of the debt to be incorporated into a statutory demand served by a landlord, on a tenant, for unpaid rent.

Note updated 26 March 2022: This resource should be read in light of the temporary pandemic-related measures that protected tenants and restricted landlords' enforcement options in the period from March 2020 to the end of March 2022, as set out in our Practice note, COVID-19: Coronavirus Act 2020 and the implications for recovering possession, and those that may affect commercial landlords and tenants on and after 26 March 2022, as set out in our Practice note, COVID-19: Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022: rent arbitration and the implications for enforcement.