Section 73 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 – Notice of termination by multiple tenants
Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (RTA 2004) · PART 5 – Tenancy Terminations — Notice Periods and other Procedural Requirements › Chapter 5 – Miscellaneous
Revised Act prepared by the Law Reform Commission, updated to 1 March 2026. Amendments made after that date are not included.
(1)Subsection (2) applies where a notice of termination is being served in respect of a dwelling by all of the multiple tenants of the dwelling.
(2)Where this subsection applies, it suffices, for the purposes of section 62(1)(b), that the notice of termination is signed by one of the multiple tenants if—
(a) the notice states it is signed by that person on behalf of himself or herself and the other tenant or tenants, and
(b) the other tenant or each other tenant is named in the notice.
(3)Any rule of law that a notice of termination served by any of 2 or more multiple tenants under a periodic tenancy of a dwelling without the concurrence of the other or others, or without the knowledge of the other or others, is effective to terminate that tenancy is abolished.
(4)In this section “multiple tenants” has the same meaning as it has in Chapter 6 of Part 4.
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