Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2024

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Number 22 of 2024


RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2024


CONTENTS

Section

1. Definition

2. Amendment of section 19B of Principal Act

3. Duration of tenancy for dwellings referred to in section 3(1A)

4. Amendment of section 58 of Principal Act

5. Amendment of section 78 of Principal Act

6. Amendment of Schedule 2 to Principal Act

7. Short title, commencement, collective citation and construction


Acts Referred to

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 (No. 28)

Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (No. 27)

Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 to 2022

Student Support Act 2011 (No. 4)

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Number 22 of 2024


RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2024


An Act to provide for arrangements to apply to tenancies of dwellings referred to in section 3 (1A) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 ; in the case of those tenancies to permit advance payment of rent exceeding an amount equivalent to one month’s rent only where a person is paying both rent and tuition fees to the same person; to limit the duration of those tenancies, other than at the request of the prospective tenant, to not more than 41 weeks; to apply sanctions for improper conduct by a landlord in relation to the duration of those tenancies; to enable a tenant of a dwelling referred to in section 3(1A) of that Act of 2004, whether or not a landlord has failed to comply with any obligations of the tenancy, to serve a notice of termination in the period between 1 May and 1 October in any year; and for those and other purposes to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 .

[12th July, 2024]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: