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Residential Tenancies Act 1997

38General duty to mitigate

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38 General duty to mitigate A person who, apart from this section, would be entitled to compensation under this Act is not entitled to the compensation, or part of it, if the loss, or part of the loss, to be compensated could have been reasonably avoided.

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