A tenant has the right to use any utility supplier and tariff that they choose.
The fact that the landlord has elected to piggy back off the arrangement is their choice, and that doesn't give them any additional right over the supplier choice or the tariff.
While it might be stretching the point, using this arrangement to obtain a discount on their own electricity supply is actually a fee, and is, consequently, prohibited.
Personally, if the landlord doesn't agree to pay, I'd live with it (on the too hard right now basis) and then I'd underpay the last month's rent by the amount "owed".
The landlord might be able to recover it from the deposit, in which case I'd use the small claims process to recover it.
That kicks the can down the road until you're no longer a tenant of this repellent person.
By then you might not care, or you may find this is the first of a series of stupid issues.
Just out of interest, who's names as the landlord on the tenancy agreement?
The fact that the landlord has elected to piggy back off the arrangement is their choice, and that doesn't give them any additional right over the supplier choice or the tariff.
While it might be stretching the point, using this arrangement to obtain a discount on their own electricity supply is actually a fee, and is, consequently, prohibited.
Personally, if the landlord doesn't agree to pay, I'd live with it (on the too hard right now basis) and then I'd underpay the last month's rent by the amount "owed".
The landlord might be able to recover it from the deposit, in which case I'd use the small claims process to recover it.
That kicks the can down the road until you're no longer a tenant of this repellent person.
By then you might not care, or you may find this is the first of a series of stupid issues.
Just out of interest, who's names as the landlord on the tenancy agreement?
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