Request to Amend an Order: Getting a Typo or Math Error Fixed at the LTB

Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) has a short form for one narrow job: getting a clerical slip in one of its orders corrected. That is the Request to Amend an Order. Think of a typo, a sum added up wrong, or a similar mistake. Landlords most often need it when an eviction or payment order shows the wrong unit, misspells a name, or contains bad arithmetic that would cause problems with the Court Enforcement Office or with collecting. Tenants can use it the same way, for example when the amount owing in an order does not match what the Member decided.

Key facts

What counts as clerical

The LTB's Rules of Procedure allow this at Rule 24.1: a party, or someone directly affected, can request correction of a clerical error in an order. The form's definition covers typing errors, errors in calculating an amount, and similar errors. Typical cases: a street number that is off, a misspelled tenant name, two digits swapped, or a daily compensation figure out of line with the rent the Member found.

Fixing a clerical error can carry other changes with it. Rule 24.3 lets the LTB adjust provisions that depend on the corrected item, like the termination date or the amounts owing. Rule 24.2 adds that the LTB can make such a correction unprompted, with neither submissions nor a hearing.

The limit is firm: the outcome stays as the Member decided it, and an amendment cannot touch it. Disputed findings, a section of the RTA applied the wrong way, an unwelcome remedy: none of those are clerical.

Amend, review, or both?

• Amend if the written order departs from what the Member plainly intended. The reasons find $3,150 owing but the order says $1,350; the order names unit 104 and the tenant actually lives in 401.
• Review for errors of substance: new evidence, a hearing you missed, or a serious mistake of law or fact. That form is the Request to Review an Order. Each form tells you not to use it for the other's job.
• Both, where both problems exist. On the amend form there is a question about any review or Divisional Court appeal you have started on this order. Review deadlines are now shorter, so if there is a substantive problem, file the review without waiting for the amendment.
• Your own mistake? If the error started in something you filed (say, a wrong address on your L1), say so and identify the document. The form asks for it.

Deadlines

• Thirty days from the issue date of the order or decision (Rule 24.1; note 1 on the form). Rules 1.12–1.14 govern the count: calendar days, not counting the issue date but counting the final day, and if that final day is a weekend or an LTB holiday, the deadline becomes the next day the LTB is open.
• Missed it? Rule 16.2 has you file, alongside the amend request, a Request to Extend Deadline.
• The other clocks keep running. Reviews of orders dated July 1, 2026 or later have a 15-day limit (RTA s. 209(3)); appeals to the Divisional Court, 30 days (s. 210). Asking for an amendment pauses neither one.
• Eviction dates can move. Because Rule 24.3 lets an amendment shift the amounts or the termination date, look over the amended version carefully before it goes to the Sheriff.

Example: an order issues on Monday, November 2, 2026. A review request on a substantive error is due by Tuesday, November 17, 2026. A Request to Amend for a clerical slip is due by Wednesday, December 2, 2026. If both apply, do not let the later date lull you past the earlier one.

Completing the form

The current version is dated v. 01/04/2022.

Part 1 (who you are)

Mark which you are: tenant, landlord, co-op member, co-op, or some other party. Then your contact details (phones, address, name), followed by the unit, building or complex involved. Add the other party's information; a Schedule of Parties handles more than one.

Part 2 (the reasons)

Fill in the order's file number and its issue date. Next, set out the clerical mistake, and the precise wording the order should have once fixed; Rule 24.5 insists that you "identify precisely the amendment requested". Copy out the erroneous text, then the replacement. Point the Member to the source of the correct figure, such as the reasons for decision, the Information Update, or the application. Name any filed document that caused the slip. Someone who is not a party needs to describe how the order affects them.

Stay of the order

There is a box to ask that the order be stayed while your request is decided. Ticking it means explaining, under Rule 24.6, the harm you would face with no stay. While stayed, an order is unenforceable, which is why landlords rarely ask, unless the mistake itself blocks enforcement or makes it unfair. A tenant facing enforcement of an order with a serious slip in it may have more reason to ask.

Part 3 (other proceedings)

Indicate any review request or Divisional Court appeal already filed against this order.

Part 4 (signature)

Indicate requester, representative or other, then sign it, date it and add a phone number. A representative also supplies contact details and a licence number. Rule 24.5 treats a signature, the file number, the unit's address and complete contact details as mandatory.

Filing it

File it on the Tribunals Ontario Portal, the route the LTB lists. Paralegals and lawyers have no choice in the matter, under the Practice Direction on licensees. You will not find a fee for it in the LTB's schedule.

Why amend requests fail

1. Trying to change the outcome. Disagreement is not a clerical error. Expect a refusal, and possibly a lost review deadline in the meantime.
2. Late, with no extension request. The extension request must accompany the amend request (Rule 16.2).
3. No precise wording for the fix. Rule 24.5 requires you to identify the amendment exactly.
4. No source for the correct figure. If you cannot point to where the right number or name appears, the Member cannot treat the error as clerical.
5. Missing basics. An unsigned request, or one lacking the file number, the unit address or full contact information, falls short of Rule 24.5.
6. Seeking a stay without saying why. The prejudice has to be identified (Rule 24.6).

What happens next

The request goes to a Member. Note 2 on the form describes the options: where a clerical error is found, the Member can simply issue an amended order, or can first invite submissions from the other side or schedule a hearing. Rule 24.4 lets the LTB stay the order on its own while the request waits. An amended order is reviewable in its own right, within the usual review deadline (Rules 26.4–26.5).

Common questions

What is a clerical error?

In the form's terms, a typing mistake, a calculation mistake or a similar slip. The decision was recorded wrongly; it was not made wrongly.

What is the time limit for an amend request?

Thirty days from the order's issue date (Rule 24.1). If you are past it, attach a Request to Extend Deadline.

Can an amendment move an eviction date?

Yes. Rule 24.3 allows related provisions to change along with the correction, the termination date and amounts owing among them.

When is a review the better choice?

When the problem is substantive, such as new evidence, a missed hearing, or a serious legal or factual mistake. Orders dated July 1, 2026 or later must be reviewed within 15 days.

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