COMMENT: The ongoing fight for landlords’ rights

Sharon Cullwick

Covid-19 may have put a halt to most Parliamentary business, but not the passage of the Government’s proposed tenancy law reforms.

Verbal submissions are currently being made to the Social Services Select Committee which is looking into the proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act.

It hasn’t been widely reported on, but a section of the Act gives tenants the right to perform up to eight significantly disruptive acts a year.

And, as long as there are not more than two of these acts in any one three-month period, it will not be until the end of that year that their landlord can apply to have their tenancy ended with three months’ notice.