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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1997 - SECT 206ZB

Rent must be reduced if services are reduced

    (1)     Despite anything to the contrary in the site agreement, if a site owner ceases providing services to a site tenant, the site owner must reduce the rent by—

        (a)     the amount agreed between them; or

        (b)     an amount determined by the Tribunal in the absence of any agreement on an application by either party.

    (2)     If the Tribunal determines an amount under subsection (1)(b), it may also order that—

        (a)     the reduction in rent is to take effect from the time the site owner ceased to provide services to the site tenant; and

        (b)     the site owner is to refund to the site tenant any excess rent paid by the site tenant from the time the site owner ceased to provide services until the date of the order.

S. 206ZC inserted by No. 67/2010 s. 10, amended by No. 45/2018 s. 197.



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