Hon Maurice Williamson, in Committee, to move the following amendments:
Clause 4
Subclause (1): to insert the following definition before the definition of assignment (before line 8 on page 7):
“approved form, in relation to any application or other matter, means a form approved and made available by the chief executive for the purposes of that application or matter
Subclause (1): to omit the definitions of boarding house, boarding house tenancy, boarding house tenancy agreement, and boarding room (lines 10 to 12 on page 7).
New subclause (1A): to insert the following subclause after subclause (1) (after line 30 on page 7):
Clause 13: new section 16A(4)(b)
To omit “prescribed”
(line 11 on page 15) and substitute “approved”
.
Clause 15: new subclause (1A)
To insert the following subclause after subclause (1) (after line 24 on page 16):
New clause 15A
To insert the following clause after clause 15 (after line 29 on page 16):
15A Tenant may pay bond direct to chief executive with landlord's consent
Section 21(2) is amended by omitting “prescribed”
and substituting “approved”
.
Clause 16
New section 22(1)(a): to omit “prescribed”
(lines 1 and 2 on page 17) and substitute “approved ”
.
New section 22A(1): to omit “prescribed”
(line 12 on page 17) and substitute “approved”
.
Clause 55(4): new section 72(2)(mc)
To omit this paragraph (lines 23 to 27 on page 56) and substitute the following paragraph:
Clause 58
New section 86(1): to omit “prescribed form”
(line 15 on page 58) and substitute “approved form”
.
New subsection (1A): to insert the following subsection after subsection (1) (after line 16 on page 58):
New clause 66A
To insert the following clause after clause 66 (after line 7 on page 62):
66A Enforcement of orders other than possession orders and work orders
Section 107(3) is amended by omitting “in the prescribed form”
.
Clause 72
New section 112B(2)(b): to omit “the prescribed”
(line 14 on page 64) and substitute “any prescribed”
.
New section 112C(1)(a): to omit “the prescribed”
(line 4 on page 65) and substitute “any prescribed”
.
Clause 76
To add the following subclause as subclause (2) (after line 3 on page 68):
New clause 89A
To insert the following clause after clause 89 (after line 2 on page 73):
89A References to Part 2A to be disregarded before its commencement
(1) Until the commencement of Part 2A of the principal Act, section 50(ab) of the principal Act must be read as if it did not refer to a sole tenant under a boarding house tenancy agreement or to section 66W of the principal Act.
(2) Until the commencement of Part 2A of the principal Act, Schedule 1A of the principal Act must be read as if it did not contain the items that relate to sections located in Part 2A of the principal Act.
Explanatory note
This Supplementary Order Paper amends the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill.
The Supplementary Order Paper—
separates certain provisions that relate to the new regime for boarding houses from provisions that do not relate to that regime. This allows the boarding house regime to be brought into force after the other provisions are in force:
replaces requirements to use forms prescribed by regulations with requirements to use forms approved by the chief executive of the Department of Building and Housing when—
notifying the chief executive of the particulars of certain agents appointed by landlords:
lodging bonds with the Department of Building and Housing:
applying for refunds of bonds:
commencing proceedings before the Tenancy Tribunal (the form used for this purpose is approved in consultation with the Principal Tenancy Adjudicator):
amends provisions on the jurisdiction of the Tenancy Tribunal to reflect changes in its jurisdiction concerning abandoned goods:
continues the power to prescribe a fee for providing contact information about judgment debtors to judgment creditors, but no longer requires the Governor-General in Council to prescribe such a fee:
removes the requirement to prescribe notices to be filed in District Courts, particularly notices of appeal against decisions of the Tenancy Tribunal; as a result the form of such notices will be governed by rules of court.