Residential Tenancy Act 1997
3AExtension of emergency period for COVID-19 emergency
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3A Extension of emergency period for COVID-19 emergency
[Section 3A Inserted by No. 11 of 2020, Sched. 2, Applied:27 Mar 2020]
(1) The Minister may, by order, extend the emergency period to a day specified in the order.
(2) The Minister may, in an order under subsection (1) , only extend the emergency period for a period of 90 days.
(3) The Minister may make as many orders under subsection (1) as the Minister thinks are necessary to reasonably mitigate any significant, widespread, hardship caused, or likely to be caused, to a significant number of tenants by the effect of the presence in the State of the socially-dislocating disease and the risk of its spread amongst persons in the State.
(4) The Minister must, by order, declare that the emergency period has ended, if the Minister is satisfied that the amendments to the operation of this Act made by the COVID-19 Emergency Act are no longer required to reasonably mitigate any significant, widespread, hardship caused, or likely to be caused, to a significant number of tenants by the effect of the presence in the State of the socially-dislocating disease and the risk of its spread in the State.