Residential Tenancy Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2011 (TAS)

Residential Tenancy Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2011

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Residential Tenancy Act 1997 .5 December 2011

PETER G. UNDERWOOD

Governor

By His Excellency’s Command,

NICK McKIM

Minister for Corrections and Consumer Protection

1Short titleThese regulations may be cited as the Residential Tenancy Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2011 . 2CommencementThese regulations take effect on 1 January 2012. 3Principal RegulationsIn these regulations, the Residential Tenancy Regulations 2005 are referred to as the Principal Regulations. 4Regulation 5 amended (Infringement notice offences and penalties) Regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulation (5) . 5Schedule 2 amended (Infringement Notice Offences and Penalties) Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting after item 7 the following item:

7A.  25(2) 10

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 14 December 2011

These regulations are administered in the Department of Justice.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation) These regulations amend the

(a) prescribing the failure to pay a security deposit to specified persons as an infringement notice offence; and (b) effecting minor statute law revision.