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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1997 - SECT 65

Waiver of notice requirements

    (1)     The ACAT may hear an application for the review of a rental rate increase even though the application is made less than 2 weeks before the day when the proposed increase is to come into effect, if the ACAT is satisfied that—

        (a)     the application is late because of special circumstances; and

        (b)     to hear the application will not place the lessor in a significantly worse position than the lessor would have been had the applicant applied as prescribed.

    (2)     Subsection (3) applies if—

        (a)     a tenant purports to give a termination notice to the lessor because of a rental rate increase; and

        (b)     the notice is a defective termination notice; and

        (c)     the tenant vacates the premises in accordance with the defective termination notice.

    (3)     On application by the former tenant, the ACAT may make an order correcting the defect in the defective termination notice if satisfied that the order would not put the former lessor in a significantly worse position than the former lessor would have been had the notice not been defective.



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