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Residential Tenancies Act 1986

Tenancy agreements - Key money, bonds, and rents

28B: Effect of rent increases under section 28 or 28A

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“Rent increases agreed or ordered under special rules don't change when you can normally raise the rent.”

If you agree to a rent increase or if one is ordered under section 28 or section 28A, it doesn’t change when your rent can be reviewed or increased in the future. This means the usual dates for rent reviews or increases stay the same.

If a rent increase is agreed to or ordered under section 28 or section 28A while there’s an order from the Tribunal under section 25, it doesn’t change when that order ends. The rent increase is treated like a change to that order.

Sections 28 and 28A are more important than sections 24 and 26. This means if there’s a conflict between these sections, sections 28 and 28A will be followed.

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Part 2 Tenancy agreements
Key money, bonds, and rents

28BEffect of rent increases under section 28 or 28A

  1. An increase of rent agreed or ordered under section 28 or 28A does not affect the dates on which the rent may otherwise be reviewed or increased.

  2. An increase of rent agreed or ordered under section 28 or 28A during the currency of any order made by the Tribunal under section 25—

  3. does not affect the expiry date of that order; and
    1. is to be treated as an amendment of that order.

      1. Sections 28 and 28A override sections 24 and 26.

      Notes
      • Section 28B: inserted, on , by section 22 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 95).