The Standing Committee on Municipal and General Administration recommends amending the Rental Act to allow the Rental Disputes Board to operate as a unit within the State Housing Bank. The committee says this should help reduce case processing times, but MPs from the Socialist Left Party and Red Party question whether reorganisation without additional resources is adequate, and urge the government to evaluate earlier regulatory changes.
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Section 12-5, subsections 1 and 2, shall read: The Rental Disputes Board handles disputes under this Act and under the Rental Act of 16 June 1939 no. 6. The Rental Disputes Board is academically independent and may not be instructed on the handling of individual cases or on its other professional activities.
The Storting urges the government to evaluate, by the end of 2026, how the changes to the regulations governing the Rental Disputes Board, which came into force on 1 January 2024, have functioned.