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Penalty for landlord whose tenants use drugs?

  • 30-09-2009 1:50pm
    #1
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭


    I seem to remember a change in the law a few years ago which installed a huge fine for a landlord whose tenants use drugs in the place they're renting from him.

    What's the law, what's the penalty, and has anyone ever actually been prosecuted under this law and fined?


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  • #2
    Trojan911
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Trojan911


    luckat wrote: »
    What's the law, what's the penalty, and has anyone ever actually been prosecuted under this law and fined?

    I would like to see this law as well....

    I find it hard to see how the landlord can police it unless he/she has her tenants signs a no drugs clause etc on the contract.


  • #3
    Jev/N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    Can't remember an exact section but there's a provision under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 for the tenant not to engage in antisocial behvaviour - could be what you're on about?


  • #4
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Jev/N it could possibly be what I'm on about. That would be around the right timeframe. I remember a big kefuffle about it in the Herald at the time, but don't know if it came to anything.


  • #5
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Nope, that doesn't seem to be it. This was one of those reactive legislations, and I think it allowed large fines and possibly prison for a landlord whose tenants used drugs. Still on the statute books as far as I know.... if I could only find it.


  • #6
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    luckat wrote: »
    a landlord whose tenants used drugs

    Are you sure it wasn't a landlord who knowingly allowed a tenant to use drugs?

    A bit strange otherwise...how could the landlord prevent drug use without invading the tenant's privacy?


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  • #7
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Maybe it was 'knowingly' - can you cite a law with that by any hopeful chance?


  • #8
    Trojan911
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Trojan911


    Stainless_Steel wrote: »
    A bit strange otherwise...how could the landlord prevent drug use without invading the tenant's privacy?

    My thoughts as well.....


  • #9
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    As far as I remember, this was one of those knee-jerk laws; what you might call a Liveline Law. Everyone was getting very exercised about drugs and the harm they do, and there was a general feeling of "There should be a law against it", so, as we do in Ireland, we made a law against it, felt satisfied for a while, then forgot about the law.

    My vague memory of it is that landlords faced a fine of several thousand euro, and possibly jail time as well.

    It may have been not just for *use* of drugs, but also for *making or growing* drugs.

    I notice that rental contracts now tend to have a clause where the tenants promise not to use drugs - maybe this came in after the law.


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