This page contains different parts of laws about Renting.
5A: Certain excluded long fixed-term tenancies remain subject to repealed sections of Property Law Act 1952
CC 2: Non-compliance with covenant for repair
CZ 20: Disposal of personal property lease asset under specified lease
DB 18: Transaction costs: leases
DB 21: Amounts paid for non-compliance with covenant for repair
DB 22: Amounts paid for non-compliance and change in use
EE 4: Ownership of lessee’s improvements: lessee
EE 5: Ownership of lessee’s improvements: other person
EI 5: Amount paid to lessor for non-compliance with covenant for repair
EJ 11: Amount paid by lessee for non-compliance with covenant for repair
132: Eligibility to vote in referendum
185: Occupier may act if owner of premises makes default
186: Local authority may execute works if owner or occupier defaults
230: Offences by occupiers
4: Act not to interfere with agreements
20: Crown tenant's option
226A: Savings in respect of cross leases, company leases, and retirement village leases
79: Effect of entry recorded on record of title
Schedule 3: Regulations revoked
Schedule 4: Enactments amended
5B: Exempt student accommodation
13AB: Address for service
50A: Termination following death of sole tenant
60A: Fixed-term tenancy becomes periodic unless contrary notice given
60B: Tenant must exercise right to renew or extend tenancy not later than 28 days before expiry
60C: Notices and orders continue to apply to renewed or extended tenancies
62A: Disposal of abandoned goods following assessment of market value
62B: Disposal of abandoned goods in accordance with Tribunal order
62C: Application of proceeds of sale and recovery of amount owing
62D: Tenant may claim proceeds of sale
62E: Responsibility of tenant unaffected
62F: Protection from liability
66A: Application of Part
66B: Interpretation for this Part
66C: Content of boarding house tenancy agreements
66D: Bond of 1 week’s rent or less
66E: Outgoings
66F: Tenancy not assignable by tenant
66G: Quiet enjoyment
66H: Landlord’s obligations at start of tenancy
66I: Landlord’s ongoing obligations
66J: Other obligations of landlord
66K: Obligations of tenant
66L: Tenant’s liability for damage caused by others
66M: Tenant’s obligations at end of tenancy
66N: Mitigation of damage or loss
66O: Landlord may make house rules
66P: What tenant may do if he or she objects to house rules
66Q: Landlord has right to enter premises at any time
66R: Landlord’s right to enter boarding room is limited
66S: Notice of entry
66T: Consequence of abuse, or refusal, of right of entry
66U: Termination of tenancy by landlord
66V: When tenant may terminate tenancy
66W: Termination of tenancy on death of sole tenant
66X: Abandonment by tenant
66Y: Possession orders
83A: Referral of complaints to Health and Disability Commissioner
91A: Service on tenants following application
91B: Substituted service, etc
109A: Tribunal may restrain further commissions of unlawful acts
112A: Interpretation
112B: Application for contact information
112C: Application referred to specified agency
112D: Response to applicant
112E: Specified information sent to District Court
112F: Non-disclosure of contact information
136A: Calculation of periods
Schedule 1A: Amounts for unlawful acts
22A: Applications to chief executive for payment of bond without agreement of other party
22B: Applications to, and orders by, Tribunal
22D: Chief executive may take steps to refund bonds
28A: Increase of rent by order in case of unforeseen expenses
59A: Termination where breach renders premises uninhabitable
53A: Special provisions for notice terminating certain student tenancies
16A: Landlord must have agent if out of New Zealand for longer than 21 consecutive days
18A: Landlord must not require security other than permitted bond
16B: Body corporate rules part of tenancy agreement
22C: Payments of bond to be made out of Residential Tenancies Trust Account
22E: MSD may disclose address information for bond refund purposes
24A: Expiry of temporary rent reduction
28B: Effect of rent increases under section 28 or 28A
19: Workplace does not include dwellinghouse
CW 42B: Community housing trusts and companies
65: Accommodation supplement: discretionary grant
66: Social housing exclusion
67: Other funding exclusion
68: Accommodation supplement: special rules for joint tenants who are in relationship
69: Accommodation supplement: refusal, reduction, or cancellation of grant in certain circumstances
272: Effect of cancellation of youth payment on accommodation supplement or temporary additional support
283: Effect of cancellation of young parent payment on accommodation supplement or temporary additional support
423: Regulations: accommodation supplement
Schedule 10: Consequential amendments
2A: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Schedule 1AA: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
138A: Regulations in respect of smoke alarms
138B: Healthy homes standards
91AA: Process for determining abandonment applications within 10 working days without hearing
123A: Documents to be retained by landlord and produced to chief executive if required
123B: Documents to be produced by tenant to chief executive if required
123E: Tribunal may authorise inspection
123D: Power of entry to inspect premises
124A: Chief executive may take proceedings in place of tenant or landlord
123C: Chief executive’s powers in relation to produced documents
124B: Supplementary provision to section 124A
1: Short Title and commencement
2: Interpretation
3: Act to bind the Crown
4: Act generally to apply to all residential tenancies
5: Act excluded in certain cases
6: Long fixed-term tenancies
7: Tenancies for short fixed terms
8: Parties to excluded tenancies may agree that Act shall apply
9: Existing tenancies
10: Onus of proof
11: Act generally to apply despite contrary provisions
12: Discrimination to be unlawful act
12A: Choice of procedures
13: Tenancy agreement must be in writing and signed
13A: Contents of tenancy agreement
13B: Variations and renewals of tenancy agreements
13C: Tenancy agreements not unenforceable on grounds not in writing
13D: Exceptions to requirements relating to tenancy agreements
14: Minors
15: Notification of successor to landlord or tenant
16: Change of name or address
17: Requiring key money prohibited
18: Bonds to be no more than 4 weeks' rent
19: Duties of landlord on receipt of bond
20: Duties of chief executive in relation to bonds
21: Tenant may pay bond direct to chief executive with landlord's consent
21A: Notification of changes of address to chief executive
22: Agreed applications to chief executive for payment of bond
23: Rent in advance
24: Rent increases
25: Market rent
26: Duration of order determining market rent
27: Rent in excess of market rent irrecoverable
28: Increase of rent by agreement or order in case of substantial improvements, improved facilities, or variation of terms
29: Receipts for rent
30: Landlord to keep records
31: Apportionment of rent
32: Accelerated rent or damages prohibited
33: Tenant's goods not to be seized
34: Transitional provision relating to bonds
35: Transitional provisions relating to fair rents and equitable rents
36: Legal impediments to occupation
37: Vacant possession
38: Quiet enjoyment
39: Responsibility for outgoings
40: Tenant's responsibilities
41: Tenant's responsibility for actions of others
42: Tenant's fixtures, etc
43: Disposition of landlord's interest
44: Subletting or parting with possession by tenant
45: Landlord's responsibilities
46: Locks
47: Landlord to give notice to tenant if premises put on market
48: Landlord's right of entry
49: Mitigation of damage or loss
50: Circumstances in which tenancies are terminated
51: Termination by notice
52: Provision for shorter notice may be made with consent of Tribunal
53: Special provisions for notice terminating service tenancies
54: Tribunal may declare retaliatory notice of no effect
55: Termination on non-payment of rent, damage, or assault
56: Termination for non-payment of rent and other breaches
57: Effect on subtenancy of termination of head tenancy
58: Mortgagee or other person becoming entitled to possession
59: Destruction of premises
60: Tenant remaining in possession after termination of tenancy
61: Abandonment of premises
62: Goods left on premises on termination of tenancy
63: Entry without order of Tribunal prohibited
64: Possession orders
65: Eviction of squatters
66: Reduction or termination of fixed-term tenancy
67: Constitution of Tribunal
68: Term of office of Tenancy Adjudicators
69: Remuneration of Tenancy Adjudicators
70: Tenancy Adjudicators to be protected
71: Conduct of Tribunal and stationing of Tenancy Adjudicators
72: Registrars
73: Seal of Tribunal
74: Records of Tribunal
75: Offices and Tenancy Officers
76: Tenancy Mediators
77: Jurisdiction of Tribunal
78: Orders of Tribunal
79: Jurisdiction to make interim orders
80: Orders of Tribunal to be final
81: Exclusion of Tribunal's jurisdiction prohibited
82: Exclusion of other jurisdictions
83: Transfer of proceedings to District Court
84: Jurisdiction of Tribunal generally exercisable by any Tenancy Adjudicator
85: Manner in which jurisdiction is to be exercised
86: Filing of applications
87: Duties of chief executive on receipt of application
88: Functions of Tenancy Mediators
89: Statements made in mediation to be subject to privilege
90: Tenancy Mediator to observe confidentiality
91: Notice of hearing by Tribunal
92: Non-attendance at hearing after due notice
93: Right of audience
94: Minors and persons under disability
95: Proceedings usually to be in public
96: Further provisions relating to procedure generally
97: Evidence
98: Witness summons
98A: Other witness expenses
99: Tribunal may require inquiry and report by Tenancy Mediator or suitable person
100: Tenancy Mediator or Tribunal may require valuer's report in certain proceedings
101: Protection of persons appearing, etc
102: Costs
103: Reference of questions of law to High Court
104: Decision of Tribunal
105: Rehearings
106: Enforcement of possession orders
107: Enforcement of orders other than possession orders and work orders
108: Enforcement of work orders
109: Unlawful acts
110: Failing to answer witness summons
111: Giving false evidence
112: Contempt
113: Chief executive to provide assistance
114: Powers of entry of Tenancy Mediators
115: Principal Tenancy Adjudicator may issue practice directions
116: Rules of procedure
117: Appeal to District Court
118: Powers of District Court Judge on appeal
119: Appeal on questions of law to High Court
120: Further appeal to Court of Appeal
121: Chief executive responsible for administration of Act
122: Director-General may delegate powers
123: General functions and powers of chief executive
124: Chief executive may take or defend proceedings on behalf of any party
125: Immunities
126: Annual report
127: Residential Tenancies Trust Account
128: Auditor-General to be auditor of Residential Tenancies Trust Account
129: Part B of the Fund
130: Corporation may make money available
131: Corporation may borrow
132: No execution
133: Tribunal or chief executive may require terms of tenancy agreements
134: Waiver by landlord of breach by tenant
134A: Method of payment
135: Recovery of money paid by mistake
136: Service of documents
137: Prohibited transactions
138: Time for filing charging document
139: Regulations relating to accommodation brokers
140: Regulations relating to other matters
141: Schedule 1 may be amended by Order in Council
142: Non-application of Part 4 of Property Law Act 2007
143: Housing Corporation Act 1974 amended
144: Repeals, revocations, and amendments
Schedule 1: Clauses for rent increases in fixed-term tenancy agreements
Schedule 2: Enactments repealed
67A: Appointment of temporary acting Principal Tenancy Adjudicator, Deputy Principal Tenancy Adjudicator, or Tenancy Adjudicator
92A: Tribunal may strike out proceeding
111A: Offence of breaching suppression order
17A: Requiring letting fee prohibited
138C: Regulations in respect of contaminants and contaminated premises
123CA: Programmes of inspections to monitor and assess compliance with healthy homes standards
EL 2: Outline of subpart: specific provisions
EL 6: Choosing to apply rules on property-by-property basis
EL 13: Exclusion for property provided as employee accommodation
138D: Powers to make regulations under sections 138A to 138C not limited by other enactments, etc
49A: General principle
49B: When tenant liable
49C: Landlord, not insurer, to benefit from tenant liability for careless damage
49D: Unlawful acts related to liability
49E: Meaning of premises
56A: Termination where premises are unlawful residential premises
78A: Orders of Tribunal relating to unlawful residential premises
71A: Delegation by Principal Tenancy Adjudicator
115A: Online publication of information about procedures, time frames, and progress of decisions
115B: Online publication of final written decisions
145: Provisions relating to COVID-19
Schedule 5: Provisions relating to COVID-19
138E: Regulations relating to termination of tenancy for physical assault by tenant
139A: Regulations relating to infringement offences
138F: Regulations relating to withdrawal from tenancy following family violence
45A: Protection from liability for landlord who complies with contaminant regulations
59B: Termination where regulations prescribe testing methods and maximum inhabitable level of contaminant
66IA: Protection from liability for landlord who complies with contaminant regulations
22F: Landlord must state amount of rent when advertising residential premises
42A: Consent for tenant’s fixtures, etc
42B: Minor changes
43A: Effect of provision prohibiting assignment by tenant
43B: Assignment of tenancy by tenant
43C: Effect of assignment by tenant
44A: Recovery of expenses incurred by landlord
45B: Landlord must permit and facilitate installation of fibre connection in certain circumstances
53B: Special provisions for notice terminating social housing tenancies
55A: Termination for anti-social behaviour
60AA: Landlord acting to terminate tenancy without grounds
95A: Suppression orders
109B: Tribunal may make pecuniary penalty orders
109C: Maximum amount of pecuniary penalty
109D: Considerations for Tribunal in determining pecuniary penalty
109E: Only 1 pecuniary penalty order may be made for same conduct
126A: Interpretation
126B: Proceedings for infringement offences
126D: Infringement notice may be revoked
126E: What infringement notice must contain
126F: How infringement notice may be served
126G: Payment of infringement fees
126H: Power to issue improvement notices
126I: Content of improvement notices
126J: Compliance with improvement notice
126K: Extension of time for compliance with improvement notices
126L: Chief executive may withdraw improvement notice
126M: Objection to improvement notice
126N: Chief executive may accept enforceable undertakings
126O: When enforceable undertaking is enforceable
126P: Compliance with enforceable undertaking
126Q: Withdrawal or variation of enforceable undertaking
126R: Proceedings for alleged contravention
137A: Only 1 penalty type for same conduct
22G: Landlord must not invite or encourage bids for rent
Schedule 1B: Fines and fees for infringement offences
55B: Termination where it would be unreasonable to require landlord to continue with tenancy
55AA: Termination by notice for physical assault by tenant
56B: Withdrawal from tenancy following family violence
56C: Service of notices of withdrawal and accompanying evidence
56D: Termination where it would be unreasonable to require remaining tenant to continue with tenancy
56E: Disclosure of notice of withdrawal or accompanying evidence
80I: Regulations requiring tier 2 territorial authority to change district plan
58A: Termination of tenancies in respect of build-to-rent land
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