ontario regulation 266/21

made under the

Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act

Made: April 7, 2021 (1:02 p.m.)
Filed: April 7, 2021
Published on e-Laws: April 7, 2021
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: April 24, 2021

Residential Evictions

Terms of Order

1. The terms of this Order are set out in Schedule 1.

Application

2. This Order applies as of 12:01 a.m. on April 8, 2021.

SCHEDULE 1
EVICTIONS

No enforcement of evictions or writs of possession

1. (1) No person shall attend at a residential premises for the purpose of enforcing any of the following:

1. An order evicting a tenant under the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006.

2. A writ of possession issued by the Superior Court of Justice removing a person from their place of residence.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if,

(a) in respect of an order described in paragraph 1 of subsection (1), the Landlord and Tenant Board requests that the sheriff expedite the enforcement of the order; or

(b) in respect of a writ of possession described in paragraph 2 of subsection (1), a judge of the Superior Court of Justice orders that the sheriff expedite the enforcement of the writ.