Private residential tenancy model agreement: easy read notes

12. Sub-letting & Assignation

The Agreement will probably only give the landlord's permission for the tenant(s) that are named in the Agreement to live in or use the property.

The tenant is not allowed to:

• enter into another agreement to sublet the property (or part of it) to another person, or
• take in a lodger, or
• enter into an agreement to try to transfer the tenancy (or part of it) to somebody else, or
• allow another person to start living in the property (or part of it) or using it for some other purpose.

As a general rule, if the tenant wants to allow anyone else to live in or use the property as their only or main home, then the tenant must get the landlord's written permission. The landlord does not have to give that permission.