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Residential Tenancies Act 1986

Tenancy agreements - Preliminary matters

15: Notification of successor to landlord or tenant

You could also call this:

“When the landlord or tenant changes, the new person must tell the other one about it”

If the landlord or tenant changes during your tenancy, the new person must tell you about it within 10 working days. They need to give you their full name and contact address. They also have to provide an address where you can send notices and other documents about the tenancy.

The new person must also give you their mobile phone number and email address if they have them.

If a landlord or tenant doesn’t follow these rules, they’re breaking the law. This is called an unlawful act.

If a landlord doesn’t follow these rules, they can be fined. The amount of the fine is listed in Schedule 1B of this law.

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Part 2 Tenancy agreements
Preliminary matters

15Notification of successor to landlord or tenant

  1. Where, during the term of any tenancy, the landlord's or tenant's interest passes to some other person, that other person shall, within 10 working days thereafter, cause the other party to the tenancy to be notified of—

  2. the full name and contact address of that person; and
    1. an address for service, being the address at which notices and other documents relating to the tenancy will be accepted by or on behalf of the person.

      1. For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), the following must be notified with the person’s contact address:

      2. the person’s contact mobile telephone number (if any):
        1. the person’s contact email address (if any).

          1. A landlord or tenant who fails to comply with this section commits an unlawful act.

          2. Repealed

          3. A landlord who fails to comply with this section commits an infringement offence and is liable to a fine or an infringement fee specified in Schedule 1B.

          Notes
          • Section 15: replaced, on , by section 7(1) of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 7).
          • Section 15(1A): inserted, on , by section 7 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 26).
          • Section 15(2): inserted, on , by section 9 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 59).
          • Section 15(2): repealed, on , by section 10(2) of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 95).
          • Section 15(3): inserted, on , by section 9 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 59).