Residential Tenancies Act 2004
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Chapter 5 Miscellaneous | ||
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Notice of termination by multiple tenants. |
73.—(1) Subsection (2) applies where a notice of termination is being served in respect of a dwelling by all of the multiple tenants of the dwelling. | |
(2) Where this subsection applies, it suffices, for the purposes of section 62 (1)(b), that the notice of termination is signed by one of the multiple tenants if— | ||
(a) the notice states it is signed by that person on behalf of himself or herself and the other tenant or tenants, and | ||
(b) the other tenant or each other tenant is named in the notice. | ||
(3) Any rule of law that a notice of termination served by any of 2 or more multiple tenants under a periodic tenancy of a dwelling without the concurrence of the other or others, or without the knowledge of the other or others, is effective to terminate that tenancy is abolished. | ||
(4) In this section “multiple tenants” has the same meaning as it has in Chapter 6 of Part 4. |