Cap. 604 Art. 6Requisites in writing of a contract of private residential lease. 

(1) All private residential lease contracts made after the entry into force of the Act shall be made in writing and shall include the following requirements:

(a) the tenement to be leased;

(b) the agreed use of the tenement let;

(c) the period for which that tenement shall be let;

(d) whether such lease may be extended and in what manner;

(e) the amount of rent that shall be paid and the manner in which such payment shall be made;

(f) any amount deposited by the lessee by way of security for the performance of his obligations; and

(g) an inventory, in the form of documentary evidence signed by all parties, attesting the condition of the tenement as well as the state of any furniture and domestic appliances supplied by the lessor, and the parties shall accompany such photographs with short descriptions of the content of the said photographs:

Provided that the inventory may also be presented in the form of photographs as long as the photographs are capable of attesting, fully, clearly and unequivocally, the condition of the tenement as well as the state of any furniture and domestic appliances supplied by the lessor:

Provided further that the inventory shall also be presented in the case where the tenement is let unfurnished.

(2) In the absence of one (1) or more of the said essential requisites stipulated in sub-article (1), the agreement shall be null and void:

Provided that the failure by the lessor to comply with any of the said requisites may not be held as a valid reason for the lessor to be exempted from the obligation to register the agreement in accordance with article 4.

(3) The Authority may publish on its website a model private residential lease agreement which may be used as a basis by any person entering into a private residential lease agreement:

Provided that the Authority may also publish on its website a standards form containing the clauses referred to in sub-article (1) and which may be made compulsory for any person entering into a private residential lease agreement which is not in accordance with the model agreement.