Tenancy Tribunal (Amendment) Act 1994 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Tenancy Tribunal (Amendment) Act 1994

No. 100 of 1994

An Act to amend the Tenancy Tribunal Act 1994

[Notified in ACT Gazette S280:  15 December 1994]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Tenancy Tribunal (Amendment) Act 1994.

Commencement

2.  (1)  Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2) The remaining provisions commence on the day on which section 6 of the Tenancy Tribunal Act 1994 commences.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Tenancy Tribunal Act 1994.1

Disputes

4.  Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (1) (c).

Transitional application of Act

5.  Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting from subsection (1) “, (c)”; and

(b)by omitting from subsection (4) “, (c)”.

Transitional application of Code

6.  Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting “(c)” and substituting “(b)”; and

(b)by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(2)  the Code applies to a dispute referred to in paragraph 6 (1) (e) if—

(a)the relevant lease is entered into, renewed or extended under an option on or after 1 January 1994; or

(b)the dispute relates to a provision of a lease, being a provision varied on or after that date.”.

NOTE

1. Act No. 64, 1994.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 10 November 1994]

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