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Residential Tenancies Act 1986

Administration - Improvement notices

126J: Compliance with improvement notice

You could also call this:

“ This rule says you must follow the main instructions in an improvement notice, or you'll be breaking the law. ”

If you don’t follow an improvement notice, you’re breaking the law. This is called an unlawful act. However, if the improvement notice includes suggestions or recommendations, you don’t have to follow these. Not following recommendations isn’t against the law.

Remember, an improvement notice is an official document that tells you to fix something. It’s important to do what the notice says you must do. But if it just suggests something, you can choose whether to do it or not.

If you want to know more about unlawful acts in tenancy situations, you can check section 103 of the Residential Tenancies Act.

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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=LMS453516.

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Part 4 Administration
Improvement notices

126JCompliance with improvement notice

  1. A failure to comply with an improvement notice is an unlawful act.

  2. It is not an unlawful act to fail to comply with recommendations in an improvement notice.

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Notes
  • Section 126J: inserted, on , by section 70 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 59).