Commentary on the Sections: Part 1 Absent Landlords Chapter 5: Other provisions about leases.Service charges, administration charges etc. Section 153: Notice to accompany demands for service charges
256.Section 153 requires landlords to include with service charge demands a summary of leaseholders’ rights and obligations in relation to service charges.  It inserts a new section 21B into the 1985 Act.  Subsection (2) of that new section provides a power to prescribe the form and content of such summaries by regulations.
257.Subsections (3) and (4) of the new section 21B give leaseholders a specific right to withhold payment of service charges if the required information is not provided.