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Residential Tenancies Act 1986

Tenancy agreements - Termination of tenancies and recovery of possession

62D: Tenant may claim proceeds of sale

You could also call this:

“You can ask for money from your sold stuff within a year if your landlord sold it after you left”

If your belongings are sold after your tenancy ends, you have the right to claim the money from that sale. You can do this up to one year after the sale happens. The sale could be because of section 62A(5)(b)(ii) or an order under section 62B(2)(b).

To claim the money, you need to ask the chief executive. They keep the money from the sale in a special account called the Residential Tenancies Trust Account. When you ask for the money, the chief executive can do one of two things. They can either give you the money, or if they have good reasons, they can ask the Tribunal to decide what should happen.

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Part 2 Tenancy agreements
Termination of tenancies and recovery of possession

62DTenant may claim proceeds of sale

  1. At any time within 1 year after the date of a sale under section 62A(5)(b)(ii) or under an order made under section 62B(2)(b), the tenant may apply to the chief executive for the payment to the tenant of the proceeds of sale in the Residential Tenancies Trust Account, and the chief executive must either make that payment to the tenant or, if there are reasonable grounds to do so, refer the matter to the Tribunal for determination.

Notes
  • Section 62D: inserted, on , by section 44 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 95).