s28 of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 (NSW) outlines the landlord's responsibility for urgent repairs. In the definition of urgent repairs, it includes:
"a failure or breakdown of any essential service on the residential premises for hot water, cooking, heating or laundering"
The question I'm asking is this: is an OVEN an essential service for cooking that must be repaired urgently? Or is it something without which one can live for a few weeks?
Actually, I already know the answer and it is that an oven doesn't constitute an urgent repair. If you argued this at the Tribunal, you would be ridiculed and your application would be dismissed under the section for dismissing laughable applications. You could then come home to your broken oven, cook a delicious meal on your STOVE and survive for as long as the stingy landlord takes to repair the oven.
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