Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) (Amendment) Act, 1983

Withdrawal of certain applications under section 12 of Act of 1982.

10.—(1) Where a landlord or tenant has made an application to the Court under section 12 (1) of the Act of 1982 and, at the commencement of section 5 of this Act, the matter has not come on for hearing before the Court, the applicant may, if the other party consents, withdraw the application and may make a new application under this Act to the Tribunal or a housing authority, as the case may be.

(2) Where an application is withdrawn under subsection (1), the notice given by the applicant under section 12 (5) of the Act of 1982 to the other party of his intention to make the application shall, for the purposes of a new application under this Act, be deemed to be a notice duly given to the other party under section 5 (5) of this Act.