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Residential Tenancies Act 1986

The Tenancy Tribunal - Constitution and administration

71: Conduct of Tribunal and stationing of Tenancy Adjudicators

You could also call this:

“Rules for where and when judges meet to settle renting problems”

The Principal Tenancy Adjudicator is in charge of making sure the Tribunal’s work is done in an orderly and quick way across New Zealand. They can give directions to help with this, after talking to other Tenancy Adjudicators when possible.

The chief executive decides where the Tribunal will meet. These meetings happen when needed to get work done.

The Principal Tenancy Adjudicator tells each Tenancy Adjudicator where to work and which areas they will cover.

If a Tenancy Adjudicator works in a certain place, it means they are allowed to work there. No one can question their decisions just because of where they are working.

The Principal Tenancy Adjudicator or the Tenancy Adjudicator working in a specific area can decide when and on which days the Tribunal will meet in that place.

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Part 3 The Tenancy Tribunal
Constitution and administration

71Conduct of Tribunal and stationing of Tenancy Adjudicators

  1. The Principal Tenancy Adjudicator shall be responsible for ensuring the orderly and expeditious discharge of the business of the Tribunal throughout New Zealand, and accordingly may, subject to subsection (2) and to such consultation with the other Tenancy Adjudicators as is appropriate and practicable, give all such directions as are contemplated by the succeeding provisions of this section.

  2. Sittings of the Tribunal must be held, as and when necessary for the dispatch of its business, at the places that the chief executive directs.

  3. Each Tenancy Adjudicator shall be stationed at, and shall exercise the jurisdiction of the Tribunal in, such place or places as the Principal Tenancy Adjudicator may from time to time direct.

  4. Notwithstanding anything in subsections (2) and (3), the fact that a Tenancy Adjudicator sits in any particular place shall be conclusive evidence of that Tenancy Adjudicator's authority to do so, and no exercise of any jurisdiction or power by any Tenancy Adjudicator shall be questioned on the ground that the Tenancy Adjudicator was not stationed at, or authorised to exercise the jurisdiction of the Tribunal in, the place where the Tenancy Adjudicator exercised the jurisdiction or power.

  5. Sittings of the Tribunal for the dispatch of its business in any particular place shall, subject to any directions by the Principal Tenancy Adjudicator, be held on such days and at such times as may be appointed by the Tenancy Adjudicator, or one of the Tenancy Adjudicators, stationed at, and authorised to exercise the jurisdiction of the Tribunal in, that place.

Notes
  • Section 71(2): replaced, on , by section 52 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 95).