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2020-41 - The Residential Tenancies Act

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NEW BRUNSWICK
REGULATION 2020-41
under the
The Residential Tenancies Act
(O.C. 2020-129)
Filed June 30, 2020
1New Brunswick Regulation 82-218 under The Residential Tenancies Act is amended by adding after section 17 the following: 
17.01(1)For the purposes of paragraph 24.01(1)(b) of the Act, the documents are as follows:
(a) an emergency intervention order within the meaning of the Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Act with respect to the domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence or criminal harassment to which the tenant was subject;
(b) an order of the court with respect to the domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence or criminal harassment to which the tenant was subject; or
(c) a declaration that the tenant has been the subject of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence or criminal harassment.
17.01(2)A declaration referred to in paragraph (1)(c) shall be in Form 10.
17.01(3)The following classes of persons, acting as third-party verifiers, may make a declaration referred to in paragraph (1)(c):
(a) peace officers;
(b) victim services coordinators employed by the Province;
(c) victim services coordinators employed by a police force as defined in the Police Act or by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police;
(d) outreach workers employed by an organization that receives funding from the Women’s Equality Branch of the Executive Council Office for the administration or delivery of the Domestic Violence Outreach Program;
(e) outreach workers, crisis interveners or support workers employed by a transition house or second stage housing;
(f) employees of an educational institution at which the tenant or a dependant child of the tenant is enrolled;
(g) indigenous chiefs or elders; and
(h) persons who are members of a health profession that is self-regulated under a private Act of the Province and in good standing with the applicable regulatory body.
2The Regulation is amended by adding after Form 9 the attached Form 10.