Residential Tenancies Act 1986, ss 55, 56, 77(2)(L)
As soon as you’re overdue in your rent – even if just by one day – your landlord can give you a written notice telling you to pay the overdue amount within two weeks (14 days), or longer if the landlord chooses.
If you don’t pay it by the set time, your landlord can apply to the Tenancy Tribunal for it to order you to pay the overdue rent. Sometimes they can also ask the Tribunal to end the tenancy and order you to move out with what’s known as a “termination order”. See “Moving out: When and how tenancies end” in this chapter.
Your landlord can’t take any of your things in place of the unpaid rent, or for any other reason.