Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2020-10-23
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Rebecca Moynihan (LAB), Administrative Panel

I move amendment No. 2:
In page 4, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:
“Emergency period
2. (1) Subject to subsection (2), an emergency period, in relation to the tenancy of a dwelling, shall be a period in respect of which relevant regulations made by the Minister for Health restrict travel to, from or within the area or region within which the dwelling concerned is situated.
(2) Where the period referred to in subsection (1) is specified in relevant regulations as ending on a date before 31 March 2021, the emergency period shall expire on 31 March 2021.
(3) An emergency period shall include an emergency period in respect of which the Minister for Health made relevant regulations before the coming into operation of this Act and which emergency period has not expired on that coming into operation.
(4) In this section, “relevant regulations” means regulations made under section 31A of the Health Act 1947 which operate, subject to conditions contained in the regulations, to impose restrictions on travel to, from or within an area or region to which an affected areas order applies.”.
I will briefly speak to the amendment, if that is okay.

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Sitting date: 2020-10-23