Yukon Landlord Notice Periods by Ground

How Notice Periods Work in Yukon

For common landlord notices, the 14-day notice period is counted in days and longer grounds use months. Some specialized grounds, such as termination of employer-provided housing, use weeks.

The Notice Period for Each Ground

14 days — Unpaid rent and other cause grounds. For unpaid rent, first serve a Notice of Unpaid Rent; if rent remains unpaid five days after the tenant receives it, you may serve the 14-day notice. The notice must be effective no earlier than 14 days after receipt. Payment within seven days of receiving the 14-day unpaid-rent notice voids it; payment does not void a repeated-late-payment notice.

3 months — Landlord or close family member, or purchaser or close family member, to occupy a non-mobile-home periodic tenancy. The notice must be received at least three months before the tenancy ends and before the rent-due date that starts the count. In a monthly tenancy with rent due on the 1st, a notice received on June 20 can end the tenancy no earlier than September 30 at 1:00 PM.

4 months — Qualifying renovation or repair, change of use, or demolition. Renovations or repairs must require the unit to be vacant to meet minimum regulated standards; change of use must be non-residential for at least 12 months. All necessary permits and approvals must be in hand before serving. The landlord must pay one month's rent as compensation to the tenant on or before the effective date. The tenant can choose to apply the compensation as a credit on the last month's rent.

6 months (proposed, not yet in force) — No-cause termination for a non-mobile-home periodic tenancy. Bill No. 8 passed third reading on October 27, 2026; the Legislative Assembly's progress table, current as of November 2, showed no assent. If enacted, the bill states that it comes into force on December 1, 2026; the notice period runs from the tenant's receipt and the effective date must fall on the day before rent is due.

Other landlord grounds have specialized periods: 1 month if a tenant ceases to qualify for a subsidized unit; 6 months for condominium conversion or an eligible housing agency's relocation; 1 to 8 weeks for employer-provided housing, depending on length of employment; and 18 months for a mobile-home-site change of use.

Full Rental Months vs. Calendar Days

For the longer notices, "full rental months" means each month must run from rent-due date to the day before the next rent-due date. The notice must be in the tenant's hands before the rent-due date that begins the first month of the count.

If you serve by registered mail (five-day deeming rule), subtract five days from that deadline to find your last mailing date. If you serve by personal delivery (same-day receipt), you have until the day before the rent-due date.

The Savings Provision

Yukon's RTA 2025 includes a statutory correction: if a notice specifies a move-out date that is too early, the date automatically adjusts forward to the earliest compliant date. This prevents the notice from being thrown out solely for a date miscalculation. But the savings provision does not fix fundamental problems — a missing signature, the wrong form, or a failure to meet preconditions like having permits.

Getting the Calculation Right

Our Ending a Tenancy in Yukon guide includes a notice-date calculator worksheet that maps each ground to its period, factors in the service deeming rules, and produces the correct move-out date and mailing deadline.

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