Property Management

Landlord insurance bill canned - for now

A bill currently before Parliament requiring landlords to insure tenants has been canned, however it hasn’t gone away altogether.

Monday, September 18th 2006

The Maryan Street-sponosred Residential Tenancies (Damage Insurance) Amendment Bill is instead being worked into the on-going review of the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA).

Street said the bill aimed to protect tenants in group-flatting situations from being financially disadvantaged should their flatmates cause damage to the rental property.

If it passed the bill would have made it compulsory for landlords to provide this insurance for their tenants.
However, the Social Services Select Committee recommended that the bill not be passed.
It says that the issues covered by the bill will be considered in the Department of Building and Housing’s RTA review of the Residential Tenancies Act 1986.

“While we are interested in the intent of the bill, we are not convinced that the measures proposed would effectively protect innocent tenants from the consequences of damage caused by other tenants,” it says in its report.

The committee also said that the bill would have a number of negative unintended
consequences.

One of these was the establishment of a list of uninsurable tenants, or a blacklist.

Street said the bill carried “no such intention or implication. It simply asks that non-liable tenants not be pursued for costs, in the event of damage being caused by another tenant.”

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