Residential Tenancy Amendment Regulations 2010


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Residential Tenancy Amendment Regulations 2010

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Residential Tenancy Act 1997 .

22 November 2010

PETER G. UNDERWOOD

Governor

By His Excellency's Command,

NICK McKIM

Minister for Corrections and Consumer Protection

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Residential Tenancy Amendment Regulations 2010 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on the day on which the Residential Tenancy Amendment Act 2010 commences.

3.   Principal Regulations

In these regulations, the Residential Tenancy Regulations 2005 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.

4.    Regulation 7A inserted

After regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations , the following regulation is inserted:

7A.   Non-application of Act to parts of educational institution

(1)  Each provision of the Act does not apply to any premises that are part of an educational institution except where the premises are the subject of –
(a) an application for an allocation under the National Rental Affordability Scheme Regulations 2008 of the Commonwealth and that application has not been refused or withdrawn; or
(b) an allocation, or the reservation of an allocation, under those regulations.
(2)  In subregulation (1)  –
allocation has the same meaning as in the National Rental Affordability Scheme Act 2008 ;
reservation of an allocation means a reservation of an allocation within the meaning of the National Rental Affordability Scheme Regulations 2008 .

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 1 December 2010

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 to provide that the Residential Tenancy Act 1997 does not apply to premises that are part of an educational institution except where the premises are the subject of an allocation under the National Rental Affordability Scheme Regulations 2008 of the Commonwealth, or an application for, or reservation of, such an allocation.