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Residential Tenancies Act 1997
60Tenant’s defective termination notice
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60 Tenant’s defective termination notice
(a) a tenant purports to give a termination notice to the lessor; and
(2) The residential tenancy agreement terminates on the day the tenant
(3) On application by the former lessor, the ACAT may make an order
for compensation for the former tenant’s abandonment of the
(4) However, the ACAT may only make the order if satisfied the former
lessor is in a significantly worse position because of the defective
termination notice than the former lessor would have been had the
notice not been defective.