Structure and Summary of the Act Meaning of private residential tenancy
7.Section 1(1) provides that a tenancy is a private residential tenancy where three conditions are met. These are that: the property is let to an individual as a separate dwelling; the tenant occupies all or part of it as the tenant’s only or principal home; and the tenancy is not one which is excluded under schedule 1.
8.Section 1(2) provides that once a tenancy has become a private residential tenancy, it does not lose that status simply because the tenant is no longer occupying the property as his or her only or principal home. This provision ensures that all of the provisions of the Act remain available to the tenant and landlord to enable either one of them to terminate the tenancy, but the tenancy will continue as a private residential tenancy unless terminated.