Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015
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Change of name of Board | ||
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13. (1) The board established under section 150 of the Principal Act shall, on and from the commencement of this section, be re-named An Bord um Thionóntachtaí Cónaithe or, in the English language, the Residential Tenancies Board. | ||
(2) Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by substituting the following for the definition of “Board”: | ||
“ ‘Board’ shall be construed in accordance with section 150(1) and section 13 of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015;”. | ||
(3) In any enactment or any instrument under an enactment, references to the Private Residential Tenancies Board shall be construed as references to the Residential Tenancies Board. | ||
(4) The Principal Act is amended— | ||
(a) in section 131— | ||
(i) in subsection (1), by deleting “private”, and | ||
(ii) in subsection (2), by substituting “ ‘rented sector’ ” for “private rented sector”, | ||
(b) in section 151(1) — | ||
(i) in paragraph (c), by deleting “private”, | ||
(ii) in paragraph (d), by deleting “private”, | ||
(iii) in paragraph (e), by deleting “private”, and | ||
(iv) in paragraph (f), by deleting “private” in each place where it occurs, | ||
(c) in section 151(2), by deleting “private”, | ||
(d) in section 151 by substituting the following subsection for subsection (4): | ||
“(4) In this section ‘rented sector’ means— | ||
(a) the sector of commercial activity in the State consisting of the letting of dwellings, and | ||
(b) the letting, by approved housing bodies, of dwellings, referred to in section 3(4) (inserted by section 3 of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015), to households referred to in that subsection.”, | ||
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(e) in section 181— | ||
(i) in subsection (1), by deleting “private”, and | ||
(ii) in subsection (3), by substituting “ ‘rented sector’ ” for “ ‘private rented sector’ ”. |