Serve and enforce orders

Orders are official documents that are enforceable through the courts. This means a B.C. court can force a party to follow what is instructed in the order.

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• The Residential Tenancy Branch role
• Types of orders
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The Residential Tenancy Branch role

The Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) does not serve or enforce orders. If you are the successful party in dispute resolution, you need to serve the order to the other party.

The RTB provides original copies of the order to the successful party:

• One for their records
• One for the court
• One for each person named in the order

An order cannot be enforced until the review period for an arbitrator’s decision has passed.

Types of orders

There are 2 types of orders:

Order of Possession

Gives the successful party possession of the rental property.

• Learn how to serve and enforce an Order of Possession

Monetary Order

Instructs a person to pay another person a specific amount of money.

• Learn how to serve and enforce a Monetary Order

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