Section 17 — Residential Tenancies Act 2010 (NSW)

(1) If a residential tenancy agreement has been signed by a tenant and given to the landlord or a person on the landlord’s behalf and has not been signed by the landlord—
(a) acceptance of rent by or on behalf of the landlord without reservation, or
(b) any other act of part performance of the agreement by or on behalf of the landlord,
gives to the document the same effect it would have if it had been signed by the landlord on the first day in respect of which rent was accepted or on the day on which such an act was first performed.
(2) This section applies despite section 54A of the Conveyancing Act 1919.

Related sections

• s 14 — Landlord’s obligation to ensure written residential tenancy agreement
• s 15 — Standard residential tenancy agreements
• s 16 — Written residential tenancy agreements—Tribunal orders
• s 18 — Fixed term agreements to continue as periodic agreements after end of fixed term
• s 19 — Prohibited terms
• s 20 — Mandatory terms may be varied for long term leases

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