AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 1998
No. 5 of 1998
	
An Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 1997
[Notified in ACT Gazette S150: 25 May 1998]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
1. 	Short title 
	This Act may be cited as the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 1998.
2. 	Commencement
(1) 	This Act, other than sections 4 and 8, commences on the day on which section 3 of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 commences.
(2) 	Sections 4 and 8 commence on 1 July 1998.
3. 	Principal Act
	In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Residential Tenancies Act 1997.1

4. 	Interpretation
	Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of “approved mediator” and substituting the following definition:
‘approved mediator’  means a mediator who is registered under the Mediation Act 1997;”.
5. 	Abandonment during fixed term
	Section 62 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a)	by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “tenancy”; and
(b)	by omitting from paragraph (4) (a) “residential tenancy”.
6. 	Successor in title to lessor
	Section 64 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) all the words from and including “within” to and including “entitled,”.
7. 	Applications for resolution of dispute
	Section 73 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (1) “residential” before “tenancy” (first occurring).
8. 	Repeal
	Division 3 of Part VI of the Principal Act is repealed.
	
NOTES
Principal Act
1.	Act No. 84, 1997.  See also Acts Nos. 96 and 122, 1997.

Section headings
On the day on which section 62 of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 is amended by this Act, headings to sections of the Principal Act are altered as set out in the following table:

Section	Alteration	
21	Before “tenancy” insert “residential”.	
22	Before “tenancy” insert “residential”.	
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 30 April 1998]

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