14Landlord’s obligation to ensure written residential tenancy agreement

14 Landlord’s obligation to ensure written residential tenancy agreement

14 Landlord’s obligation to ensure written residential tenancy agreement

(1) The landlord under a residential tenancy agreement must ensure that the agreement is in writing at the commencement of the agreement.

(2) This section does not—

(a) impose any obligation on a tenant to prepare a written residential tenancy agreement, or

(b) affect the enforceability of a residential tenancy agreement that is not in writing or is only partly in writing.

(3) If a landlord fails to comply with this section, the landlord is not entitled to terminate the residential tenancy agreement on a ground set out in sections 87E–87M during the first 6 months of the tenancy.

Note.

The Tribunal may order a landlord to enter into a written residential tenancy agreement (see section 16).

s 14: Am 2024 No 75, Sch 1[1]; 2025 No 48, Sch 1.9[1].