Where this comes from
Bill 60, the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025, received Royal Assent in November 2025. Schedule 12 is the part that amends the Residential Tenancies Act and Landlord and Tenant Board procedure, and it is being brought into force in stages rather than all at once.
The consolidated Act on Ontario's e-Laws site is the place to check status. Each pending change appears inline as a note reading "On September 21, 2026, the day named by order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council…" directly above or below the provision it affects, with the current wording still shown.
This page covers the two amendments that change routine landlord practice. Schedule 12 touches a considerably wider set of provisions, including Board procedure and regulation-making powers, and this is not a complete account of the package.
Change one: the N4 becomes 7 days for everyone
Section 59(1) currently permits a termination date no earlier than the 7th day after notice for a daily or weekly tenancy, and the 14th day "in all other cases" — so 14 days for a normal monthly tenancy.
From 21 September 2026 the subsection is repealed and replaced with a single rule: notice "effective not earlier than the 7th day after the notice is given", with no distinction by tenancy type.
What does not change: section 59(2) still requires the notice to state the arrears and the tenant's right to pay them, section 59(3) still voids the notice if the tenant pays before you file, and section 74(2) still discontinues the application if they pay the arrears and your fee before an order issues. The runway shortens; the off-ramps stay open.
Do not serve a 7-day N4 before the provision is in force. A termination date that does not comply with the section in effect on the day the notice is given is a defective notice.
Change two: 120 days' notice instead of a month's compensation
Section 48.1 today requires a landlord giving a section 48 own-use notice to compensate the tenant one month's rent or offer another acceptable unit, with no exceptions.
The amendment makes section 48.1 "subject to subsection (2)" and adds that subsection. The compensation requirement does not apply where the notice is given on or after the provision comes into force, the termination date is at least 120 days after the notice, and that date is the end of a rental period or the end of a fixed term.
All three criteria have to hold. Miss the period-end alignment and the compensation is owed however much notice was given.
For a landlord who plans ahead, this is a genuine saving. For one reacting to circumstances, the one-month payment remains the price of moving faster.
What to do before the date
Diarise 21 September 2026 and check any N4 template you use. A template with 14 days hard-coded will be wrong afterwards; one with 7 days is wrong until then.
If you already know you will need a unit for your own use next year, work backwards from a period end at least 120 days out and decide whether the notice is worth waiting to serve.
Verify against e-Laws before you rely on any of this. In-force dates named by order can move, and a page written in August is exactly the sort of thing that goes stale quietly. The consolidated Act shows the operative text with its own effective date on every provision.