Residential Tenancies Act 1986

where the premises are commercial premises:

where the whole or a substantial part of the tenant’s income is derived from the use of the premises for agricultural, pastoral, horticultural, or other similar purposes:

where the premises are let for a fixed-term tenancy of at least 5 years, the tenancy was granted before the commencement, on 1 January 2008, of the Property Law Act 2007, and the tenancy agreement expressly provides that this Act shall not apply:

where the premises constitute part of a Corrections prison or Police jail:

where the premises constitute part of any hospital, home, or other institution for the care of sick, disabled, or aged persons:

where the premises constitute part of Police barracks, or Police cells and lock-ups:

where the premises constitute any barracks conducted by the Armed Forces for the accommodation of persons subject to the Armed Forces Discipline Act 1971:

where the premises constitute any barracks or hostel conducted by an employer for the accommodation of employees of that employer or (where the employer is a company) for the accommodation of employees of any associated company (within the meaning of section 2(2)):

where the premises are used to provide accommodation to students—

where the premises constitute part of a building occupied by a club and used by the club for the provision of temporary or transient accommodation to members of the club:

where the premises constitute part of any hotel in respect of which an on-licence is in force under the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012:

where the premises—

where the tenant occupies the premises under an occupation right agreement within the meaning of the Retirement Villages Act 2003:

where the premises are let for the tenant’s holiday purposes:

where the premises, not being a boarding house, continue to be used, during the tenancy, principally as a place of residence by the landlord or the owner of the premises or by any member of the landlord’s or owner’s family:

where the tenant is the purchaser of the premises under an agreement for sale and purchase with the landlord as vendor, not being an agreement that is revocable at will by the vendor:

where any of the tenants is also the landlord or one of the landlords by virtue of an arrangement of a kind commonly known as a cross-lease or lease-back arrangement:

where the tenant’s interest in the premises is a stratum estate in leasehold under the Unit Titles Act 2010:

where the tenancy arises wholly from or depends wholly upon the ownership by the tenant of any shares in a company that owns the premises:

where the tenancy agreement—

where the premises comprise bare land (with or without facilities) on which the tenant has the right under the tenancy agreement to place or erect a mobile home, caravan, or other means of shelter:

where the tenant occupies, under a tenancy agreement, a cabin, caravan, vehicle, tent, or other building or structure that—

where temporary or transient accommodation is provided in a relocatable home under a tenancy agreement that has been entered into for the purpose of providing accommodation of that kind and that continues to be provided under the agreement:

if the tenancy has been entered into by a leasing authority under section 7(1)(e), (f), (g), or (h) of the Public Bodies Leases Act 1969:

if the Māori Trustee has leased a Māori reserve or township land under section 26 of the Maori Reserved Land Act 1955:

if the lease provides for a perpetual right of renewal:

if the lease is of land on which a dwellinghouse is erected and the lessee is entitled (whether beneficially or as trustee), on or before the termination of the tenancy, to remove the dwellinghouse or to receive compensation in respect of it:

if the premises are used to provide emergency or transitional accommodation and—

is located in a camping-ground subject to regulations under the Health Act 1956; and

is designed to be relocatable; and

comprises a group of rooms occupied or intended to be occupied either permanently or temporarily as the living quarters of a single housekeeping unit (whether consisting of 1 or more persons), which is completely self-contained in respect of domestic equipment and facilities.