Unit: Residential Tenancies Board

Residential Tenancies Board

RTB

Thursday 7th of April 2016 - still active

Replaced the Private Residential Tenancies Board and absorbed functions of the Rent Tribunal. The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 provided the RTB with additional powers to regulate the rental sector, including a new investigations and sanctions unit

From date: 2016-04-07
To date:
Source: www.rtb.ie; Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; S.I. No. 151/2016; S.I. No. 4/2016; Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019
Confidence: Very Confident
Names: RTB
- Source: www.rtb.ie
- Description: Common abbreviation
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
Names: An Bord Um Thionontachtai Conaithe
- Source: www.rtb.ie
- Description: Irish Language Name
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
Legal forms: Statutory Corporation
- Source: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; S.I. No. 151/2016
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Functions: Adjudication - Grievance Handling
- Source: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; S.I. No. 151/2016
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
Functions: Regulatory (over public and private sectors)
- Source: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; S.I. No. 151/2016
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
Policy domains: Housing and Community Amenities
- Source: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; S.I. No. 151/2016
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
Policy domains: Public Order and Safety
- Source: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; S.I. No. 151/2016
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
- Source: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; S.I. No. 151/2016; S.I. No. 394/2016
- From date: 2016-04-07
- To date: 2016-07-23
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
- Source: S.I. No. 394/2016; S.I. No. 358/2017
- From date: 2016-07-23
- To date: 2017-08-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government
- Source: S.I. No. 358/2017; S.I. No. 408/2020
- From date: 2017-08-01
- To date: 2020-09-30
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
- Source: S.I. No. 408/2020
- From date: 2020-09-30
- Confidence: Very Confident
Counties: Dublin
- Source: www.rtb.ie
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: housing and community amenities NEC
- Source: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; S.I. No. 151/2016
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: public order and safety NEC
- Source: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; S.I. No. 151/2016
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
FOI: yes
- Source: www.rtb.ie; Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; S.I. No. 151/2016; Freedom of Information Act 2014
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
Comptrollers: yes
- Source: Residential Tenancies Act 2004
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ombudsmans: yes
- Source: Disability Act 2005; Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; S.I. No. 151/2016
- Description: Subject to Ombudsman review under the Disability Act 2005
- From date: 2016-04-07
- Confidence: Very Confident
Financial information:
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2015/act/42/enacted/en/html
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2019/act/14/enacted/en/html
URL: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2016/si/151/
URL: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2016/si/4/

Associated Events
Name	Date	From	To
Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015	2016-04-07	Private Residential Tenancies Board	Residential Tenancies Board
Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015	2016-01-08	Rent Tribunal	Residential Tenancies Board

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Residential Tenancies Board

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