AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Residential Tenancies (Consequential Provisions) Act 1998
No. 4 of 1998
	
An Act to amend certain Acts and to make certain transitional arrangements, consequent on the enactment of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997
[Notified in ACT Gazette S150: 25 May 1998]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
part i—preliminary
1. 	Short title 
	This Act may be cited as the Residential Tenancies (Consequential Provisions) Act 1998.
2. 	Commencement
	This Act commences on the day on which section 3 of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 commences.
part ii—transitional provisions
3. 	Interpretation
	In this Part—
“commencement date” means the date on which section 3 of the new Act commences;
“new Act” means the Residential Tenancies Act 1997;
“old Act” means the Landlord and Tenant Act 1949.
4. 	Bond monies
(1) 	Money held in a trust account in accordance with section 62AJA of the old Act immediately before the commencement date shall be taken to have been paid to the credit of the trust account under Part III of the new Act.
(2) 	Money referred to in subsection (1) that was, immediately before the commencement date, money to which subsection 62AK (2) of the old Act applied, shall be taken to be money to which subsection 27 (2) of the new Act applies.
(3) 	Interest standing to the credit of the trust account under Part IIAA of the old Act immediately before the commencement date shall be taken to be interest to which section 28 of the new Act applies.
(4) 	Nothing in this section shall be taken to affect money held in a trust account in accordance with section 62AJA of the old Act immediately before the commencement date if that money was paid in as a bond in relation to a lease or premises to which the new Act does not apply.
5. 	Condition reports
(1) 	Where, before the commencement date, a lessor had given a person 3 copies of a report in accordance with subsection 62AF (1) of the old Act, the lessor shall be taken to have given the person the copies in accordance with subsection 29 (1) of the new Act.
(2) 	Where, before the commencement date, a person had returned 2 copies of a report to a lessor in accordance with subsection 62AF (3) of the old Act, the person shall be taken to have returned the copies to the lessor in accordance with subsection 29 (3) of the new Act.
(3) 	Nothing in this section shall be taken to apply to a report referred to in section 62AF of the old Act made in relation to—
	(a)	premises to which the new Act does not apply; or
	(b)	premises that are the subject of a lease to which the new Act does not apply.
6. 	Requests for payment of bond money
(1) 	Where—
	(a)	before the commencement date—
	(i)	a person applied under section 62AM of the old Act for payment of money;
	(ii)	no money had been paid out in relation to the application; and
	(iii)	a dispute relating to the application had not been referred to a mediator under section 62AQ of the old Act; and
	(b)	the application is not for payment of money paid as bond in relation to a lease or to premises to which the new Act does not apply;
the application shall be taken to have been made under section 32 of the new Act.
(2) 	Where—
	(a)	an application is to be taken to have been made under section 32 of the new Act by virtue of subsection (1);
	(b)	the application is not a joint application; and
	(c)	before the commencement date the Director gave notice in relation to the application under section 62AN of the old Act;
the Territory is not required to give notice of the application in accordance with section 33 of the new Act.
7. 	Notices to quit
	Where—
	(a)	before the commencement date—
	(i)	a lessor issued a notice to quit in accordance with the old Act; and
	(ii)	the notice had not expired;
	(b)	the lease or premises in relation to which the notice was issued is not a lease or are not premises to which the new Act does not apply; and
	(c)	the tenant does not quit the premises in accordance with the notice;
the lessor may apply to the Tribunal for a termination and possession order under section 47 of the new Act as if the notice to quit had been a termination notice in the prescribed form based on a ground for termination under the prescribed terms.
part iii—repeals
8. 	Repeal of Acts
	The following Acts are repealed:
Landlord and Tenant Act 1949
Landlord and Tenant Act 1952
Landlord and Tenant Act 1957
Landlord and Tenant Act 1972
Landlord and Tenant Act 1973
Landlord and Tenant Act (No. 2) 1973
Landlord and Tenant Act (No. 3) 1973
Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1976
Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1984
Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1991
Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1993
Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1997.
9. 	Repeal of Regulations
	The following Regulations are repealed:
Landlord and Tenant Regulations, being Regulations 1991 No. 18
Landlord and Tenant Regulations (Amendment), being Subordinate Law No. 39, 1993.
part Iv—amendments of other acts
10. 	Amendments of other Acts
	The Acts specified in the Schedule are amended as set out in the Schedule.

	SCHEDULE	Section 10
amendments of other acts
Forfeiture of Leases Act 1901 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the Territory
Section 4—
	Add at the end the following subsection:
“(2) 	Notwithstanding subsection (1), this Act does not apply to a residential tenancy agreement within the meaning of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 to which that Act applies.”.
Housing Assistance Act 1987
Subsection 15 (3)—
	Omit from subsection (3) “at least”.
Land Titles Act 1925
New section 123A—
	After section 123 insert the following section in Part XI:
“123A. 	This Part not to apply to residential tenancy agreements
	“Notwithstanding section 123, this Part does not apply to a residential tenancy agreement within the meaning of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 to which that Act applies.”.
Landlord and Tenant Act 1899 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the Territory
New section 2A—
	After section 2, insert the following section before Part I:
“2A. 	Application of Act
	“This Act does not apply to a residential tenancy agreement within the meaning of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 to which that Act applies.”.
Recovery of Lands Act 1929
Section 2—
	Add at the end the following subsection:
“(2) 	This Act does not apply to a residential tenancy agreement within the meaning of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 to which that Act applies.”.
Uncollected Goods Act 1996
Paragraph 13 (c)—
	Add at the end “, other than unleased land on which there are premises in respect of which the Commissioner for Housing is the lessor under a residential tenancy agreement within the meaning of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 to which that Act applies”.
New section 27A—
	Before section 28 insert the following section in Part IV:
“27A. 	Application of Part
	“This Part does not apply to premises in respect of which the Commissioner for Housing is the lessor under a residential tenancy agreement within the meaning of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 to which that Act applies.”.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 30 April 1998]

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