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Residential Tenancies Act 1986

The Tenancy Tribunal - Miscellaneous provisions

113: Chief executive to provide assistance

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“The government's top person must make sure their workers help people with paperwork and other tasks related to renting homes.”

The chief executive must make sure that their staff is available to help you if you need assistance. They can help you fill out forms required by this Act or its rules. They can also help you file an application or appeal against a Tribunal order, or enforce a Tribunal order. If you need help with any of these things, you can ask the chief executive’s staff for assistance. They should be reasonably available to provide this help to anyone who asks for it.

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Part 3 The Tenancy Tribunal
Miscellaneous provisions

113Chief executive to provide assistance

  1. The chief executive must ensure that assistance is reasonably available from his or her staff to any person who seeks it in completing any forms required by this Act or any rules made under section 116, or in doing anything in relation to the filing of an application or an appeal against an order of the Tribunal, or the enforcement of an order of the Tribunal.

Notes
  • Section 113: replaced, on , by section 76 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 95).