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Part 4Administration
Improvement notices

126KExtension of time for compliance with improvement notices

  1. This section applies if a person has been issued with an improvement notice.

  2. The chief executive may, by written notice given to the person, extend the compliance period for the improvement notice.

  3. However, the chief executive may extend the compliance period only if the period has not ended.

  4. In this section, compliance period—

  5. means the period stated in the improvement notice under section 126I(1); and
    1. includes any extension of that period under this section.

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