Twenty-eight amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act take effect that day. Here are the three that change how you serve notice, checked line by line against the Act itself.
Published · Checked against e-Laws, currency date September 8, 2026
The changes come from two different statutes, not one. Most of what follows is Schedule 12 of the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025, which is Bill 60. Several other provisions taking effect the same day come from Schedule 7 of a 2023 act, 2023, c. 10. Both were passed earlier and are commencing now by order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
Today, section 59 of the Act gives two different waiting periods: the 7th day after notice for a daily or weekly tenancy, and the 14th day for everything else, which is most monthly tenancies. On September 21 that subsection is repealed and replaced with a single rule.
Monthly and yearly tenancies. Daily and weekly are already 7.
One waiting period for every tenancy type.
Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, s. 59 (1), as amended by 2025, c. 14, Sched. 12, s. 4. Read it on e-Laws.
The rest of section 59 is unchanged. The notice still has to set out the rent owed, and it is still void if the tenant pays what is owed before you apply to the Board.
Section 48.1 currently requires a landlord ending a tenancy for their own use to compensate the tenant one month's rent, or offer another unit. On September 21 a new subsection is added that removes that requirement in one specific situation. All three conditions have to be met:
Give less than 120 days notice and the one month's compensation still applies exactly as it does today.
Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, s. 48.1 (2), as added by 2025, c. 14, Sched. 12, s. 2 (2).
This one has already happened, which is why it is easy to miss. Section 209 now gives 15 days from the issuance of a decision or order to ask the Board to review it, down from 30. The Board can still extend that time where it considers it just and appropriate. The shorter window applies to decisions and orders made on or after the day the amendment came into force.
Appeals to the Divisional Court are a separate route and still carry 30 days.
Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, s. 209 (3), as amended by 2025, c. 14, Sched. 12, s. 11.
Several widely shared posts say that fixed-term leases will stop automatically becoming month-to-month when the term ends. That is not in this legislation. Section 38 of the Act is untouched by Schedule 12, and it still deems an expired fixed-term tenancy renewed as a monthly tenancy on the same terms.
If you are planning around a lease that expires after September 21, plan on the existing rule.
The three above are the ones that change day-to-day practice for most landlords. The full set also touches former tenant applications about notices given in bad faith, what a tenant may raise at a hearing on a non-payment application, and several administrative provisions. If you have a matter in front of the Board, the detail of those will matter more than the summary here.
Every statement on this page is taken from the consolidated Act on Ontario's e-Laws, which flags pending amendments inline with the date they take effect and the act that made them.
Commencement is by order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council. e-Laws names September 21, 2026 as that day. If you are reading this after that date, check the Act rather than trusting this page.
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