BILL NO. 109
(as introduced)
1st Session, 65th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
3 Charles III, 2025
Private Member's Public Bill
Ending Abuses of Fixed-term Leases Act
Susan Leblanc
Dartmouth North
First Reading: March 25, 2025
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Note
(a) clarifies that a fixed-term lease automatically becomes a month-to-month lease when
the lease ends if the tenant remains in possession of the premises; and
(b) requires a landlord to offer a tenant the opportunity to continue a fixed-term lease as a
month-to-month lease at least 30 days before the expiry of the lease.
An Act to Amend Chapter 401
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Residential Tenancies Act,
Respecting Fixed-term Leases
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Ending Abuses of Fixed-term Leases Act.
2 (1) Subsection 10A(2) of Chapter 401 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Residential Tenancies Act, as enacted by Chapter 40 of the Acts of 1993, is amended by striking out “with the consent of an owner” in the third line and substituting “of the premises”.
- (2) Section 10A of Chapter 401, as enacted by Chapter 40 of the Acts of 1993 and amended by Chapter 41 of the Acts of 2018 and Chapter 36 of the Acts of 2021, is further amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) the following subsections:
(2A) Where a fixed-term lease exists, the landlord shall, at least thirty days before the date the lease ends, offer the tenant the opportunity to continue the tenancy on a month-to-month basis.
(2B) For greater certainty, subsection 4(1) of the Interim Residential Rental Increase Cap Act applies if a tenancy continues on a month-to-month basis following the end of a fixed-term lease under subsection (2) or (2A).
This page and its contents published by the Office of the Legislative Counsel, Nova Scotia House of Assembly, and © 2025 Crown in right of Nova Scotia. Created March 25, 2025. Send comments to legc.office@novascotia.ca.
