Section 8 — Residential Tenancies Act 1986: Parties to excluded tenancies may agree that Act shall apply

8 Parties to excluded tenancies may agree that Act shall apply (1) Nothing in any of sections 5 to 7 of this Act shall prevent the parties to a tenancy that would otherwise be excluded from this Act by virtue of any of the provisions of those sections, being a tenancy of any premises used or intended to be used for residential premises, from agreeing in writing that all or any of the provisions of this Act shall apply in respect of the tenancy, either without modification or with such modifications as they may so agree. (2) Without limiting subsection (1) of this section, any such agreement may confer upon the Tribunal, in respect of the tenancy, all or any of the jurisdiction conferred on the Tribunal by this Act in respect of tenancies to which this Act applies.