When should you send the lease modification notice?
Enter the end date of the lease. You instantly see between which dates your tenant must receive the notice, and until when they can reply, under articles 1942 and 1945 of the Civil Code of Québec.
Your result
Your tenant must receive the notice between January 1, 2027 and March 31, 2027.
3 to 6 months before the end of the lease. What counts is the date the tenant receives the notice, not the date it was sent.
The tenant has one month after receipt to refuse or announce they are leaving. Without a reply, the tenant is deemed to accept.
ProprioSign calculates these dates for each dwelling, sends the notice on the Tribunal’s official form and keeps each tenant’s date of receipt. For free.
General information, not legal advice.
How the calculation works
Article 1942 of the Civil Code of Québec sets the window in which the tenant must receive the notice. It depends on the kind of lease:
- Lease of 12 months or more : 3 to 6 months before the end of the lease.
- Lease of less than 12 months : 1 to 2 months before the end of the lease.
- Indeterminate lease : 1 to 2 months before the date of the change.
- Room : 10 to 20 days before the end of the lease or the date of the change.
The tenant has one month after receipt to refuse or announce they are leaving. Without a reply, the tenant is deemed to accept.
Frequently asked questions
Official sources: Civil Code of Québec, arts. 1942, 1945 (LégisQuébec)
Do you count from the date sent or the date received?
From the date received. Example: notice mailed on March 28 and received on April 2, for a lease ending June 30: that is too late, even though it was mailed in March. Keep proof of the date of receipt.
My lease ends June 30. When should I send the notice?
It must be received between January 1 and March 31. The safest is to send it in January: if it does not get through, you still have time to deliver it another way.
What happens if the notice arrives too late?
A notice received outside the window does not meet article 1942 of the Civil Code of Québec, and you risk losing the change for this renewal.
I have co-tenants. Does the calculation change?
No, the window is the same. But each person who signed the lease must receive the notice within the window, and their reply period runs from their own date of receipt.
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