Correcting a Mistake in an LTB Order: The Request to Amend, Step by Step

When an Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) order contains a clerical slip, such as a typo or a sum added up wrongly, you can file a Request to Amend an Order to have the Board put it right. Landlords tend to need it when a wrong unit number, a misspelled name or a maths error would cause problems at the Court Enforcement Office or when collecting money owed. Tenants can use it in exactly the same way, because any party, or anyone directly affected, may ask for a correction.

Quick facts

What an amendment can and cannot fix

Under Rule 24.1 of the LTB Rules of Procedure, anyone who was a party, or who is directly affected, can apply to have a clerical error in an order corrected. The form's own definition is "a typing error, an error made in calculating an amount or a similar error."

Can be fixed:

• a street number that is off;
• a tenant's or landlord's name spelled wrongly;
• two digits switched around;
• a daily compensation figure that does not line up with the rent the Member (the adjudicator who decided the case) found.

Cannot be fixed this way:

• a conclusion about the facts that you believe is mistaken;
• a provision of the RTA that, in your view, was applied wrongly;
• an outcome or remedy you do not like.

Two more points from Rule 24. Rule 24.3 lets the Board, while fixing a slip, also update parts of the order that flow from it, like the date the tenancy ends or how much is owed. Under Rule 24.2, the Board may also make a clerical correction on its own, with no hearing and no submissions.

Amend, review, or both?

Ask yourself these questions in order:

1. Does the order say something the Member obviously did not mean? For instance, the reasons award $3,150 while the order itself says $1,350, or the order names unit 12 when the tenant actually rents unit 21. That is an amendment.
2. Is the real complaint about the law or facts being seriously wrong, missing the hearing, or evidence that is new? Then use the Request to Review an Order. The review form itself says it is not for clerical errors, and the reverse is also true.
3. Is there both a clerical slip and a deeper problem? You can file both. The amend form asks whether a review or a Divisional Court appeal has also been started for the same order. With the shorter review deadline now in force, file any review promptly instead of waiting to see how the amendment turns out.
4. Did the mistake start in your own paperwork, for example an incorrect address typed into an L1? The form asks you to admit that and identify which document it was.

Your deadlines

The amendment clock: 30 days. It starts on the issue date of the order or decision (Rule 24.1, and note 1 of the form). Under Rules 1.12 to 1.14 you count calendar days, ignore the issue date, include day 30, and slide forward to the next working day when day 30 lands on a Saturday, Sunday or Board holiday.

Example. An order issued on Friday, May 8, 2026 reaches day 30 on Sunday, June 7. Because that is a weekend, the request is due by Monday, June 8.

Running late? Rule 16.2 says to file a Request to Extend Deadline at the same time as the amendment request.

The clocks that do not wait. Any order dated July 1, 2026 or later can be reviewed only on a request made inside 15 days (RTA s. 209(3)), and appealed to Divisional Court only inside 30 days (s. 210). Neither deadline gets longer because an amendment is pending.

Evictions. Because an amended order can shift the termination date or the amounts (Rule 24.3), check the corrected order line by line before the Court Enforcement Office ever sees it.

Completing the form

The version in use carries the date v. 01/04/2022.

Part 1: General Information

• ☐ Say who you are in the case (the choices are landlord, tenant, co-op, co-op member, or other party).
• ☐ Give your name, address and phone numbers.
• ☐ Identify the unit, building or complex the request is about.
• ☐ Add the other party's details. If there is more than one, attach a Schedule of Parties.

Part 2: Reasons for Your Request

• ☐ Fill in the order's file number and the date it was issued.
• ☐ Describe the clerical error and the exact wording the order should have once it is fixed. Rule 24.5 says you must "identify precisely the amendment requested."
• ☐ Quote the incorrect text, then give the correct version.
• ☐ Point to the source of the right figure or name, such as the reasons for decision, the L1 application, or an L1/L9 Information Update.
• ☐ If a party's filed document is the source of the mistake, name it.
• ☐ Not a party? Describe the direct effect the order has on you.

Stay of the order

A stay means the order is put on hold and cannot be enforced. Tick this box only if you want that while the request is decided, and describe the prejudice (the harm or unfairness) you would face without one (Rule 24.6). Landlords rarely want a stay, unless the error makes enforcing the order impossible or unfair.

Part 3: Additional Information

This part asks, with tick boxes, whether a Request for Review or a Notice of Appeal to Divisional Court is also on file for the same order.

Part 4: Signature

Indicate whether the signer is the requester, a representative or someone else; then sign and date it and list a phone number. Representatives add their licence number and how to reach them. Rule 24.5 makes a signature mandatory, along with the file number, the rental unit's address and complete contact details for you.

Sending it in

According to the LTB, this form is filed through the Tribunals Ontario Portal. A Practice Direction obliges licensed lawyers and paralegals to file it there. No fee for this request appears on the LTB's fee schedule.

Why amendment requests get turned down

1. It is really an appeal of the result. Disliking how the case came out does not make anything clerical. Expect a refusal, and a review deadline that may have slipped by while you waited.
2. It is late and has no extension request attached. Under Rule 16.2, both have to go in at once.
3. It does not spell out the corrected wording. Rule 24.5 calls for the amendment to be identified precisely.
4. Nothing backs it up. If you cannot show the source of the correct name or number, there is nothing to tell the Member the error was clerical.
5. Required details are missing. Rule 24.5 is not met by an unsigned request, or one lacking the file number, the address of the unit, or complete contact information.
6. A stay is requested with no explanation of prejudice. Rule 24.6 makes that explanation mandatory.

After you file

• A Member looks at it.
• Once satisfied that the slip is clerical, the Member can issue a corrected order without a hearing or submissions. The Member can, however, ask the other parties for their views or schedule a hearing (note 2 on the form).
• Rule 24.4 allows the Board to put the order on hold by itself while the request is undecided.
• Under Rules 26.4–26.5, the corrected order can be challenged by a review request, so long as the review deadline is met.

Common questions

What counts as a clerical error?

The form describes it as a typing slip, a calculation mistake or a similar error. The test is whether the decision was recorded wrongly, not whether it was decided wrongly.

What is the time limit?

Thirty days, starting from when the order was issued (Rule 24.1). Missed it? Attach a Request to Extend Deadline.

Could an amendment move an eviction date?

Yes, it may. Rule 24.3 allows the Board, when it corrects an order, to revise related terms too, such as when the tenancy ends and what money is owed.

When is a review the better route?

When the problem goes to substance: a hearing you missed, a serious mistake of law or fact, or new evidence. Note that orders dated July 1, 2026 onward have only a 15-day review deadline.

Official sources

• Request to Amend an Order (PDF)
• LTB Rules of Procedure, Rule 24
• Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, ss. 209–210
• Practice Direction Requiring Law Society Licensees to use TOP
• LTB Forms, filing and fees

Last reviewed October 31, 2026. General information, not legal advice for your situation. Always use the current version of the form from the LTB.