Rental Housing Act, 1999 (Act No. 50 of 1999)

Chapter 1 : Introductory Provisions

Purchase

The objectives of this Act are to—

(a)	create mechanisms to promote the provision of rental housing property;

(b)	promote access to adequate housing through creating mechanisms to ensure the proper functioning of the rental housing market;

(c)	lay down general principles governing conflict resolution in the rental housing sector;

(d)	provide for the facilitation of sound relations between tenants and landowners; and

(e)	provide for legal mechanisms to protect the rights of tenants and landowners against illegal actions by the other party by affording speedy means of redress at minimum cost to the parties.

[Section 1A inserted by section 2 and substituted by section 20 of Notice No. 876, GG 38184, dated 5 November 2014]