After a TAL decision: revocation, review, appeal · and their time limits

Verified on 9 August 2026Version 1.0General information, not legal advice

A decision is not always the end. The Act respecting the Tribunal administratif du logement provides several avenues · each with its own time limit, and those limits are short. This page does not tell you which one to choose: it names what exists and cites the section that provides for it.

First of all: notification, and proof of it

“A party who files an application must notify a copy of it to the other party. The application may be notified by any appropriate method that provides the notifier with proof that the document was delivered or published.”

Source: Act respecting the Tribunal administratif du logement, s. 56 · read on 9 August 2026.

Ten days: revocation

“Where a decision has been rendered against a party who was prevented from producing or supplying evidence by surprise, by fraud or by any other reason considered sufficient, that party may apply for the revocation of the decision. […] The application for revocation must be made in writing within ten days after the decision is known or from the time the cause of prevention ceases, as the case may be. The application for revocation suspends the execution of the decision and interrupts the time allowed for appeal or review until the parties are notified of the decision.”

Source: s. 89 · English text read at source on 10 August 2026.

One month: review

“The Tribunal may review a decision, if a party applies for such a review within one month after the date of the decision, (1) where the object of the application for a review is the fixing of the rent, the changing of another condition of the lease or the revision of the rent…”

Source: s. 90 · read on 9 August 2026.

Thirty days: leave to appeal

“The application together with a notice of presentation must be served on the adverse party and filed in the office of the court within 30 days after the decision is known.”

Source: s. 92 · English text read at source on 10 August 2026.

And where the decision leads to eviction

“Except where provisional execution is ordered, an appeal suspends the execution of the decision. An application for leave to appeal does not suspend execution of the decision. However, where the decision of the Tribunal entails the eviction of the lessee or of the occupants, an application may be filed with a judge of the Court of Québec for the suspension of execution of the decision if the applicant shows that execution would cause him serious prejudice and that he has filed an application for leave to appeal.”

Source: s. 94 · English text read at source on 10 August 2026.

What this page does not do

It does not say which avenue fits your situation, how to draft it, or whether it stands a chance. Those are questions of legal advice. What it does: keep you from learning too late that a ten-day clock was running.

What helps is in your own file: the date you learned of the decision, what prevented you from appearing if that applies, and the exhibits that support it. That is what the application helps you record.