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Residential Tenancies Act 1999
26Acceptance of condition report with or without modifications
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26 Acceptance of condition report with or without modifications
(1) Within 5 business days after receiving a condition report under
section 25, the tenant may:
(a) accept the report by signing it and returning it to the landlord;
or
(b) mark the modifications the tenant thinks fit on the report, initial
the modifications and return the report to the landlord.
(2) If a tenant does not take action under subsection (1) within the time
specified in that subsection, the tenant is to be taken to have
accepted the condition report.
(3) Within 5 business days after a landlord receives a condition report
modified by the tenant under subsection (1)(b), the landlord may:
(a) accept the report as modified by the tenant by initialling the
modifications and, without making further modifications, return
a copy of the report to the tenant; or
(b) reach agreement with the tenant as to the contents of the
report and accept the report by having both parties initial all
modifications to the report that are accepted by them; or
(c) apply to the Tribunal under section 27.
(4) If, within the period referred to in subsection (3), the landlord does
not take action under that subsection and the tenant does not apply
to the Tribunal under section 27, the landlord is taken to have
accepted the condition report as modified by the tenant.