I'm wanting some advice please on serving notice to terminate a service contract as part of a business. The service contract in question is for sanitary and PEST control services and looking at the terms and conditions we are required to 'provide 3 months written notice prior to the contracts end date, by recorded delivery letter'. Now, we have tried to serve notice before on this contract and it has previously rejected on the basis we served notice by email rather than by recorded delivery and the general ethos of the company is to keep customers tied in wherever possible so we were forced to renew the contract.
This time round I will be giving the company as much notice to terminate as possible and have today served notice, some six months in advance. In hindsight, I'm now wondering whether the company would have course to reject this on the basis that I have serviced notice too early, as the Ts&Cs don't state notice to be a 'minimum of 3 months' just '3 months' prior to the contracts end date and I'm aware with some companies (such as Virgin Media) they do not allow you to give notice until exactly 2/3 months prior to the contract end date. Do I therefore need to serve notice precisely 3 months before the contract's end?
It would be difficult to service notice 3 months prior to the end of contract as I will be on maternity leave and want to put things in order now. Does anyone know where I stand legally and whether they may have recourse to reject my early notice? We don't want to pay another penny to this company. Thanks in advance!
This time round I will be giving the company as much notice to terminate as possible and have today served notice, some six months in advance. In hindsight, I'm now wondering whether the company would have course to reject this on the basis that I have serviced notice too early, as the Ts&Cs don't state notice to be a 'minimum of 3 months' just '3 months' prior to the contracts end date and I'm aware with some companies (such as Virgin Media) they do not allow you to give notice until exactly 2/3 months prior to the contract end date. Do I therefore need to serve notice precisely 3 months before the contract's end?
It would be difficult to service notice 3 months prior to the end of contract as I will be on maternity leave and want to put things in order now. Does anyone know where I stand legally and whether they may have recourse to reject my early notice? We don't want to pay another penny to this company. Thanks in advance!
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