Section 24 makes consequential changes to section 24 of the Housing Act 1988 to reflect the abolition of assured shorthold tenancies. It also inserts a new section, 24A, into the Housing Act 1988 so that landlords can "opt out" and provide assured periodic tenancies, instead of assured agricultural occupancies, to qualifying workers. It is similar to paragraph 9 of Schedule 2A of the Housing Act 1988 which is omitted by section 2, subsection (b) of the Act.
	Section 24A(1)(a) of the Housing Act 1988 provides that landlords must inform their tenant before the tenancy starts that the tenancy will not be an assured agricultural occupancy by serving an opt-out notice on them. Section 24A(2) provides that the opt-out notice must be in a prescribed form.
Part 1: Tenancy reform Chapter 1: Assured Tenancies Section 24: Assured agricultural occupancies: opting out etc. Effect