The Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022 has been published today. This is the draft legislation intended to give effect to the temporary moratorium on residential tenancy terminations during what is referred to as the “winter emergency period”. The Bill provides the following:
28 July 2022 has been appointed as the commencement date for section 6(2)(c) of the Affordable Housing Act 2021.
This is the provision of the Act which allows a housing authority to enter into arrangements with the Land Development Agency for the purposes of making homes available for sale to eligible applicants under affordable dwelling
The Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 introduces, with effect from 6 July 2022, important changes to the law regarding the termination of residential tenancies. These amendments involve:
Further provisions of the Land Development Agency Act 2021 have been commenced with effect from 31 March 2022, as follows:
As detailed in our earlier post, the Land Development Agency Act 2021 was signed into law on 21 July 2021 but further Ministerial order was required for its provisions to be commenced.
The first such order has been made and appoints 15 December 2021 as the commencement date for the following provisions of the
The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill was signed into law on 11 December 2021. Its main provisions are summarised in this post.
What is the Bill seeking to achieve?
This Bill has 3 primary purposes, as follows:
3 September 2021 has been appointed as the commencement date for the following elements of the Affordable Housing Act 2021:
Part 2: Affordable dwelling purchase arrangements (other than subsections 2(c), (6) and (7) of section 6 which relate to housing authorities (i) potentially entering into arrangements with the LDA and (ii) being required to have
It won’t have passed you by that the Government’s Housing for All strategy was published yesterday. It is available to read in full here.
The strategy consists of 4 key pathways:
Two Statutory Instruments have been published relating to the Affordable Housing Act 2021 (the Act):
1. SI No. 424 of 2021: Affordable Housing Act 2021 (Commencement) (Parts 1 and 3) Order 2021
This appoints 19 August 2021 as the commencement date for Part 1 (Preliminary and General) and Part 3 (Cost Rental Dwellings) of
The Land Development Agency Act 2021 (the Act) was signed into law by the President on 21 July 2021. This Act gives legislative underpinning to the Land Development Agency (LDA) which was established in 2018.
The LDA has been created to coordinate public-owned land for more optimal uses where appropriate, with a