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Speaker 1: Got some new rules for meth contamination of rental properties.

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Speaker 1: The Housing Ministry has determined that a house with meth

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Speaker 1: levels of over fifteen micrograms per one hundred square meters

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Speaker 1: must be decontaminated, and if the levels had double that thirty,

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Speaker 1: either the landlord or the tenant can walk away from

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Speaker 1: the lease within a week. Now it still needs Cabinet

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Speaker 1: sign off, but it's expected to come into force next year.

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Speaker 1: Serena Given is the director of Tenancy Advisory and with

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Speaker 1: US high Serena, Hey, Heather, how are you good? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: The sound like common sense to you.

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Speaker 2: Super common sense. And also, in fact, these levels or

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Speaker 2: at least a fifteen micrograms level has been in place

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Speaker 2: since US far back as twenty seventeen, and that's the

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Speaker 2: legal president's being set by the district courts. So the

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Speaker 2: tribunal have been applying that level for a number of

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Speaker 2: years now.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so why are we letting it get to thirty?

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Speaker 1: What is thirty? Does that denote that something more serious

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Speaker 1: has been going on in the property?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think based on I'm pretty sure that based

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Speaker 2: on the science that we're aware of, thirty will give

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Speaker 2: a primer facie case of more likely than not they

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Speaker 2: had been manufacturing on site, and it's deemed as more

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Speaker 2: contaminated and more damaging and dangerous to the occupants of

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Speaker 2: the property.

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Speaker 1: Okay, in which case, why would a landlord have to

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Speaker 1: give the tenant seven days notice? I mean, if that's

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Speaker 1: been manufacturing on site, surely you want to kick them

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Speaker 1: out within the hour.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. And look, the way the uninhibitability provision works

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Speaker 2: with the RTA is that as long as the party

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Speaker 2: is not at fault. So in the case of a

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Speaker 2: tenant tenant cause contamination, the landlord gives a seven day notice.

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Speaker 2: The landlord can give noses to tenant cannot give the

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Speaker 2: notice if the property was supplied to the tenant in

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Speaker 2: the first place. At over that thirty microgrammar level, it

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Speaker 2: is deemed as the landlord is the party at fault.

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Speaker 2: The tenant gives a two day notice to terminate and

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Speaker 2: walk away quickly. And that is that disparacy between the

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Speaker 2: seven and two days is really in line with other

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Speaker 2: provisions of the RTA. That essentially reflects that the primary

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Speaker 2: purpose of the RTA is a consumer protection piece and

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Speaker 2: that it is stared ultimately to protect the tenants. So

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Speaker 2: the tenants walk away sooner and the landlord have a

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Speaker 2: bit more day, a few more days that they're going

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Speaker 2: to have to write with the tendancy.

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Speaker 1: All right, Serena, thanks very much, appreciate it. You'll take

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Speaker 1: on it as Serena Gibbon, who is a Tendency Advisory Director.

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