Commercial lease: exclusion of sections 24 to 28 of LTA

Please note that although this is a thread about rent to rent, this is not your typical rent to rent situation so please avoid the temptation to turn my thread into a discussion of the risks of rent to rent. If you’re desperate to do that in relation to my case, please start a separate thread (so that I can ignore you there instead of here :laughing:).

I have a property which I’m arranging to lease to a housing charity for refugees and/or asylum seekers. I’ve known the charity for 10 years and have another property let through them (although with them as managing agents, not via a lease). They’ve been excellent throughout that time, and I know and trust the charity with many of the main employees being close colleagues of mine in a separate capacity. I also work part-time in the migrant sector and have done since 2019 so I’m very familiar with the issues.

In preparing the lease, I would like to insert a clause that excludes Sections 24 to 28 of the LTA. If you don’t know what those are, it’s unlikely that you can help me. But if you are, then I’d appreciate your advice on the emphasis in the following:

Exclusion of Sections 24 to 28 of the Landlord & Tenant Act will need to be contained explicitly within the Lease and the Tenant will need to be served a notice by the Landlord setting out the effect of the exclusion of those provisions. The Tenant, or somebody authorised on their behalf, will then have to sign a Statutory Declaration to say that they are aware of the effect of the exclusion of the provisions of Sections 24 to 28 of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954.

Does anyone have examples of the notice and statutory declaration referred to here?

Many thanks in advance.