Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 1 July 2009
These regulations are administered in the Department of Justice.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the regulation)
These regulations amend the Residential Tenancy Regulations 2005 –(a) to prescribe Colony 47 Inc. and Anglicare Tasmania Inc. as deposit contributors for the purposes of the Residential Tenancy Act 1997 ; and(b) to provide for exemptions from section 25(2) , (3) and (4)(a) , and sections 27 - 29F , of the Residential Tenancy Act 1997 (which relate to the payment of a security deposit, who may receive such a payment and the procedures to be followed on the termination of a residential tenancy agreement where the Rental Deposit Authority holds a security deposit) in relation to –(i) certain residential tenancy agreements entered into by not-for-profit housing providers; and(ii) all residential tenancy agreements entered into by the Tasmanian University Union Inc.; and(c) to provide that no fee is payable on the lodgment of a dispute in relation to the disbursement of a security deposit held by the Rental Deposit Authority or the lodgment of information for the purposes of such a dispute; and(d) to omit an exemption from the operation of the Residential Tenancy Act 1997 for residence contracts, within the meaning of the Retirement Villages Act 2004 , which are now exempted from such operation of that Act by reason of section 6(2)(ga) of the Residential Tenancy Act 1997 .