Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 (Commencement) Order 2019

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 236/2019
• Year: 2019

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 4th June, 2019.

I, EOGHAN MURPHY, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (4) of section 1 of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 (No. 14 of 2019), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 (Commencement) Order 2019.

2. In this Order –

“Act of 2019” means the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 (No. 14 of 2019);

“Principal Act” means the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (No. 27 of 2004)

3. (1) The 31st day of May 2019 is appointed to be the day on which the following provisions of the Act of 2019 shall come into operation:

(a) sections 1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 36;

(b) section 28 (in so far only as it effects the insertion of sections 148R and 148AF of the Principal Act);

(c) paragraph (a) of section 29.

(2) The 4th day of June 2019 is appointed to be the day on which the following provisions of the Act of 2019 shall come into operation:

(a) section 6 (other than paragraphs (c) and (e) of subsection (1)) and paragraphs (c) and (e) of subsection (1) of that section (in so far only as they effect the insertion of subsections (5A) and (6A) of section 19 of the Principal Act);

(b) sections 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 21;

(c) paragraph (a) of section 24.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

30 May, 2019.

EOGHAN MURPHY,

Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

This Order appoints 31 May 2019 and 4 June 2019 as the dates on which specified provisions of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 come into effect.

Commencements with effect from 31 May 2019:

Part 1 – sections 1 and 2 - of the Act provides for short title, collective citations, commencement and definitions.

Section 10 inserts a new section 24BA into the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 to 2019 to provide that the administrative area of Cork City Council, which was deemed to be a rent pressure zone on 24 December 2016, shall include the area transferring from Cork County Council to Cork City Council on 31 May 2019.

Section 11 and 17 technically amends section 32 and 75 of the Acts to rename ‘the Schedule’ as ‘Schedule 1’.

Section 27 inserts a new section 144A into the Acts...