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An Act to consolidate the Statutes relating to the law of Landlord and Tenant.

Part 1A Preliminary

1.   Name of Act

This Act may be cited as the Landlord and Tenant Act 1899.

1A.Definition of “land”

In this Act land means land, houses, or other corporeal hereditaments.

1B.Exclusion of certain agreements from operation of Act

This Act does not apply to a residential tenancy agreement, or to land that is subject to a residential tenancy agreement, to which the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 or the Residential Parks Act 1998 applies.

2.   Schedule A

(1)    The Acts in Schedule A to this Act, to the extent to which the same are there expressed to be repealed, are hereby repealed.

(2)    All rules and orders made or enacted under any of the enactments hereby repealed and in force at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been made and enacted under the corresponding provisions of this Act.

(3)    Where any form of words or form used after the commencement of this Act refers to any enactment hereby repealed, such reference shall be taken to be a reference to this Act, and where any form of words or form so used as aforesaid would have been valid or have had a particular effect under any enactment hereby repealed, such form of words or form shall, notwithstanding the repeal of such enactment, have the same validity and effect as it would have had under the provisions of such repealed enactment if this Act had not been passed.