Section 94 — Residential Tenancies Act 1986: Minors and persons under disability

94 Minors and persons under disability (1) Subject to this section, a minor may be a party to, and shall be bound by, proceedings before the Tribunal as if the minor were a person of full age and capacity. (2) Where a minor is a party to any proceedings before the Tribunal, the Tribunal may, if it considers it would be in the interests of the minor to do so,— (a) At any time appoint to represent the minor a person who is willing to do so and who is not disqualified by section 93(7) of this Act, and authorise that person to control the conduct of the minor's case; or (b) When approving a representative under section 93(5) of this Act or at any time thereafter, authorise that representative to control the conduct of the minor's case. (3) In any proceedings before the Tribunal, any manager or person appointed to administer another's affairs under the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 shall, subject to that Act, control the conduct of the case of the person whose affairs they manage or administer. (4) A person who is empowered by or under this section to control the conduct of the case of another person may do all such things in the proceedings as the person so empowered could do if that person were a party to the proceedings in place of that other person. (5) Nothing in this section shall restrict the application of section 12 of the Minors Contracts Act 1969 to— (a) A settlement agreed to by or on behalf of a minor; or (b) A payment made or proposed to be made by, or on behalf of, or to, or for the benefit of, a minor,— after proceedings have been commenced before the Tribunal. (6) In this section proceedings before the Tribunal means— (a) Proceedings before the Tribunal or on appeal from the Tribunal; and (b) A settlement agreed to in the course of any proceedings before the Tribunal or on appeal from the Tribunal; and (c) Proceedings under section 108 of this Act for enforcement of a work order of the Tribunal;— and also includes any order made in any such proceedings. Subsection (3) was substituted, as from 1 May 1996, by section 38 Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 7).