Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
pour la fin d’un mois
English translation:
effective at the end of a month; tenancy: notice to quit expiring end of month
French term
United Kingdom
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Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean, UK, South African) 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
pour la fin d’un mois
"... vous pouvez interrompre à tout moment votre stockage en respectant un préavis de 15 jours pour la fin d’un mois. Passé ce délai, le mois suivant sera dû dans son intégralité."
I have put:
"...., you can cancel your storage rental at any time, SUBJECT TO A 15 DAY NOTICE PERIOD. .......?"
So, is this an "end of the month" or a "15 day" notice period? How should it be expressed?
Thanks.
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Adrian MM.
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Dec 7, 2020 00:35: writeaway changed "Field" from "Bus/Financial" to "Marketing"
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Proposed translations
Austria
Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish) 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 5 more.
effective at the end of a month; tenancy: notice to quit expiring end of month
Alas, this is another trap. Compare in German zum.. kündigen > tenant or landlord give notice to quit expiring on a date when vacation needs to take place: another professional negligence case at my Central London translation office when, years after the translation, a local firm of Solicitors queried the tenant needing 'at the end of the year to give one year's notice' of a lease in Frankfurt am Main. Upshot; the landlords were stuck another year with the tenants.
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philgoddard
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Thanks and merci, Phil.
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Tony M
: Yes, it means you must give notice no later than 15th of the month, otherwise you will be considered to have started another full month.
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Thanks, Toni. This question has been asked and answered before as effective, albeit without the notice-to-quit expiry angle that had been the basis of the professional negligence claim I referred to. So, in fact, a PRO query.
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Gordon Matthews
: My understanding is that notice has to be given at least 15 days in advance of the end of the month, when the tenancy is to end.
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Exactly, Gordon, thx. In my prof. neg. case, an office colleague of mine referred to the mistranslated notice-to-quit point as 'another time bomb ticking away, this time in a lease.'
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AllegroTrans
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Thanks, Chris. Notice to quit a rental expiring on ... had in fact been the main scenario I have had to d/w.
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Libby Cohen
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Merci and thanks, Libby !
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Michele Fauble
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Merci, tusen takk and thanks, Michele!
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rokotas
: It's like when you say "payment 45 days end of month", i.e. 45 days AFTER the end of the invoicing month
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Efaristo rokotas, merci and thanks for the extra alternative.
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Discussion
However, when translating, if it is specifically stated numerically, of course you must stick to that!
Clearly, rental period run for periods of one calendar month at a time; and the period of notice is 15 days; hence if you want to terminate your rental on 31st August, you must have given your notice by 15th August at the latest, otherwise you will be deemed to be renting it for another month (i.e. September).