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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1987 - SECT 31B

31B .         Increase in rent after renegotiating lease

        (1)         Subsection (2) has effect if —

            (a)         a residential tenancy agreement creates a tenancy for a fixed term (the former agreement ); and

            (b)         the parties enter into a new residential tenancy agreement in relation to the same premises (the new agreement ) that is to commence immediately after the end of the term of the former agreement, whether under the terms of the agreement or under section 76C.

        (2)         The tenant cannot be required under the new agreement to pay an amount of rent, in respect of the first 30 days of the new agreement, that is more than the amount that would have been payable under the former agreement if the former agreement had continued to have effect during that period.

        [Section 31B inserted: No. 23 of 2014 s. 88.]



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