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Bill and Explanatory statement

The bill and explanatory statement for this Act are accessed from Residential Tenancies Bill 1997.

Notification statement

The Residential Tenancies Act 1997 was passed by the Legislative Assembly and was notified in the Gazette on 25 November 1997 (Gaz 1997 No S360).

Act as notified

Date notified Effective Files/Formats Notes
25 November 1997 25 May 1998 View online icon HTML Download icon PDF Download icon Word

Commencement

Provision Commencement date Commencement method
s 1, s 2 25 November 1997 s 2 (1)
remainder 25 May 1998 s 2 (3)

Expiries

Provision Expiry date Expiry method
pt 19 commences 1 April 2025 s 164
pt 16 29 December 2022 (midnight) expired at the end of a 3-month period during which no COVID-19 emergency has been in force (s 156 (6))
pt 17, s 71C (1), note 2 29 January 2022 (midnight) s 159
pt 18 4 October 2020 (midnight) s 162
pt 15 14 December 2019 (midnight) s 155
pt 14 11 October 2018 (midnight) s 150
pt 13 24 August 2018 (midnight) s 147
pt 12 6 March 2009 (midnight) s 143
pt 11 1 July 2007 (midnight) s 141
s 96 (4), (5) 23 November 2006 (midnight) s 96 (5)
s 28 (4)-(7) 22 March 2006 (midnight) s 28 (7)
pt 10 8 March 2006 (midnight) s 139
s 125 (5), (6) 10 January 2006 (midnight) s 125 (6)
s 133 ((4)-(7) 12 September 2002 (midnight) s 133 (7)

Amendments

For section-by-section amendment annotations, see the amendment history in the endnotes in the current version of this law.

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