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Property Law Act 1958
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132A Voluntary waste
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a tenant for life or lives term of years at will or otherwise shall not commit voluntary waste.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall apply to any estate or tenancy without impeachment of waste, or affect any licence or other right to commit waste.
(3) A tenant who infringes subsection (1) shall be liable in damages to his remainderman or reversioner but this section imposes no criminal liability.
(4) This section does not affect the operation of any event which may determine a tenancy at will.
(5) No tenant shall be liable in damages for permissive waste for which he would not have been liable if this section had not been enacted.
No. 3754 s. 133.