Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019
Number 14 of 2019
RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019
REVISED
Updated to 18 October 2024
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including the Planning and Development Act 2024 (34/2024), enacted 17 October 2024, and all statutory instruments up to and including Valuation Act 2001 (Global Valuation) (Apportionment) (Uisce Éireann) Order 2024 (S.I. No. 548 of 2024), made 18 October 2024, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 14 of 2019
RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019
REVISED
Updated to 18 October 2024
CONTENTS
Preliminary and General
1. Short title, collective citation, construction and commencement
Amendment of Residential Tenancies Act 2004
3. Amendment of section 3 of Act of 2004
4. Amendment of section 3A of Act of 2004
5. Amendment of section 4 of Act of 2004
6. Amendment of section 19 of Act of 2004
7. Amendment of section 20 of Act of 2004
8. Amendment of section 24A of Act of 2004
9. Amendment of section 24B of Act of 2004
10. Relevant area within meaning of Local Government Act 2019 deemed to be rent pressure zone
11. Amendment of section 32 of Act of 2004
12. Amendment of section 34 of Act of 2004
13. Amendment of section 35 of Act of 2004
14. Amendment of section 56 of Act of 2004
15. Amendment of Chapter 3 of Part 5 of Act of 2004
16. Amendment of section 66 of Act of 2004
17. Amendment of section 75 of Act of 2004
18. Amendment of section 78 of Act of 2004
19. Amendment of section 93 of Act of 2004
20. Amendment of section 109 of Act of 2004
21. Amendment of section 123 of Act of 2004
22. Amendment of section 134 of Act of 2004
23. Amendment of section 135 of Act of 2004
24. Amendment of section 136 of Act of 2004
25. Amendment of section 137 of Act of 2004
26. Amendment of section 137A of Act of 2004
27. Enforcement of requirement to update particulars
29. Amendment of section 151 of Act of 2004
30. Authorised officers and decision makers
31. Amendment of section 168 of Act of 2004
32. Amendment of section 176 of Act of 2004
33. Amendment of Schedule to Act of 2004
Miscellaneous Provisions
36. Repeal of certain provisions of Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015
Acts Referred to
Building Control Act 2007 (No. 21)
Disability Act 2005 (No. 14)
Local Government Act 2019 (No. 1)
Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30)
Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2018
Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 (No. 28)
Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 (No. 42)
Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (No. 27)
Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 to 2016
Number 14 of 2019
RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019
REVISED
Updated to 18 October 2024
An Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 to 2016; to provide for powers to carry out investigations of landlords and impose administrative sanctions; to provide for offences in relation to non-compliance with rent increase restrictions in rent pressure zones; to increase the notice periods to be provided in the case of termination of a tenancy by a landlord; to provide for annual registration by landlords of tenancies and to amend the registration process; to provide for mandatory publication of determination orders by the Residential Tenancies Board; to provide that the letting of a house or part thereof for any period not exceeding 14 days in a rent pressure zone is a material change in the use of the house or part and for that purpose to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000; and to provide for related matters.
[24th May, 2019]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: