Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015

13.

Change of name of Board

13. (1) The board established under section 150 of the Principal Act shall, on and from the commencement of this section, be re-named An Bord um Thionóntachtaí Cónaithe or, in the English language, the Residential Tenancies Board.

(2) Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by substituting the following for the definition of “Board”:

“ ‘Board’ shall be construed in accordance with section 150(1) and section 13 of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015;”.

(3) In any enactment or any instrument under an enactment, references to the Private Residential Tenancies Board shall be construed as references to the Residential Tenancies Board.

(4) The Principal Act is amended—

(a) in section 131—

(i) in subsection (1), by deleting “private”, and

(ii) in subsection (2), by substituting “ ‘rented sector’ ” for “private rented sector”,

(b) in section 151(1) —

(i) in paragraph (c), by deleting “private”,

(ii) in paragraph (d), by deleting “private”,

(iii) in paragraph (e), by deleting “private”, and

(iv) in paragraph (f), by deleting “private” in each place where it occurs,

(c) in section 151(2), by deleting “private”,

(d) in section 151 by substituting the following subsection for subsection (4):

“(4) In this section ‘rented sector’ means—

(a) the sector of commercial activity in the State consisting of the letting of dwellings, and

(b) the letting, by approved housing bodies, of dwellings, referred to in section 3(4) (inserted by section 3 of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015), to households referred to in that subsection.”,

and

(e) in section 181—

(i) in subsection (1), by deleting “private”, and

(ii) in subsection (3), by substituting “ ‘rented sector’ ” for “ ‘private rented sector’ ”.