Residential Tenancies Act 2004
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Duty owed to certain third parties to enforce tenant's obligations. |
15.—(1) A landlord of a dwelling owes to each person who could be potentially affected a duty to enforce the obligations of the tenant under the tenancy. | |
(2) In subsection (1) “person who could be potentially affected” means a person who, it is reasonably foreseeable, would be directly and adversely affected by a failure to enforce an obligation of the tenant were such a failure to occur and includes any other tenant under the tenancy mentioned in that subsection. | ||
(3) This section does not confer on any person a right of action maintainable in proceedings before a court for breach of the duty created by it; the sole remedy for such a breach is by means of making a complaint (where the conditions specified in section 77 for doing so are satisfied) to the Board under Part 6. | ||
(4) Nothing in subsection (3) affects any duty of care, and the remedies available for its breach, that exist apart from this section. |