Section 8 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 – Regulations and orders

Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (RTA 2004) · PART 1 – Preliminary and General

Revised Act prepared by the Law Reform Commission, updated to 1 March 2026. Amendments made after that date are not included.

(1)The Minister may make regulations prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed.

(1A) Without prejudice to any provision of this Act, regulations under this section may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations.

(2)Every order (other than an order made under section 2 or 149) and regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order or regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the order or regulation is laid before it, the order or regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

(3)The Minister may be order amend or revoke an order under this Act (other than an order under section 2 or 149).

(4)An order under subsection (3) shall be made in the like manner and its making shall be subject to the like (if any) consents and conditions as the order that it is amending or revoking.

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