Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1997 (NO. 84 OF 1997) - SECT 65

65. (1) The Tribunal may hear an application for the review of a rental rate increase notwithstanding that the application is made less than 14 days before the day on which the proposed increase is due to come into effect, if the Tribunal is satisfied that—

        (a)     the application is late due to 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) Where a tenant vacates premises as a result of a rental rate increase but fails to give the lessor notice of intention to vacate premises in the prescribed form, the Tribunal may, on application by the tenant or former tenant, treat the notice as having been given in the prescribed form if satisfied that—

        (a)     the failure to give notice in the prescribed form is a result of special circumstances; and

        (b)     to treat notice as having been so given will not put the lessor in a significantly worse position than if notice had been given properly.