RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 2021

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Number 5 of 2021

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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 2021

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CONTENTS

1. Amendment of Planning and Development, and Residential Tenancies, Act 2020

2. Amendment of Residential Tenancies Act 2020

3. Short title and collective citation

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Acts Referred to

Planning and Development, and Residential Tenancies, Act 2020 (No. 27)

Residential Tenancies Act 2020 (No. 17)

Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 to 2020

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Number 5 of 2021

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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 2021

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An Act to extend the emergency period specified in the Planning and Development, and Residential Tenancies, Act 2020; for that purpose to amend that Act and the Residential Tenancies Act 2020; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

[30th March , 2021]

WHEREAS the disease known as Covid-19 continues to present a serious risk to public health, and the transmission thereof has proven difficult to prevent, and it continues to be necessary for the State to adopt extraordinary measures and safeguards aimed at containing that disease and preventing, minimising and reducing the risk of infection of persons with the disease;

WHEREAS the rise in unemployment among persons who reside in residential tenancy accommodation has had an adverse impact