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Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008
sec.184EGrounds for refusing pets being kept at premises
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### sec.184E Grounds for refusing pets being kept at premises
The following are the only grounds for a lessor to refuse a tenant’s request for approval to keep a stated pet at the premises—
keeping the pet would exceed a reasonable number of animals being kept at the premises;
the premises are unsuitable for keeping the pet because of a lack of appropriate fencing, open space or another thing necessary to humanely accommodate the pet;
keeping the pet is likely to cause damage to the premises or inclusions that could not practicably be repaired for a cost that is less than the amount of the rental bond for the premises;
keeping the pet would pose an unacceptable risk to the health and safety of a person, including, for example, because the pet is venomous;
keeping the pet would contravene a law;
keeping the pet would contravene a body corporate by-law or park rule applying to the premises;
the tenant has not agreed to the reasonable conditions proposed by the lessor for approval to keep the pet;
the animal stated in the request is not a pet;
if the premises is a moveable dwelling premises—keeping the pet would contravene a condition of a licence applying to the premises;
another ground prescribed by regulation.
Subsection (1) (g) applies only to conditions to which an approval may be subject under section 184F .
s 184E ins 2021 No. 19 s 44
(sec.184E-ssec.1) The following are the only grounds for a lessor to refuse a tenant’s request for approval to keep a stated pet at the premises— keeping the pet would exceed a reasonable number of animals being kept at the premises; the premises are unsuitable for keeping the pet because of a lack of appropriate fencing, open space or another thing necessary to humanely accommodate the pet; keeping the pet is likely to cause damage to the premises or inclusions that could not practicably be repaired for a cost that is less than the amount of the rental bond for the premises; keeping the pet would pose an unacceptable risk to the health and safety of a person, including, for example, because the pet is venomous; keeping the pet would contravene a law; keeping the pet would contravene a body corporate by-law or park rule applying to the premises; the tenant has not agreed to the reasonable conditions proposed by the lessor for approval to keep the pet; the animal stated in the request is not a pet; if the premises is a moveable dwelling premises—keeping the pet would contravene a condition of a licence applying to the premises; another ground prescribed by regulation.
(sec.184E-ssec.2) Subsection (1) (g) applies only to conditions to which an approval may be subject under section 184F .
- (a) keeping the pet would exceed a reasonable number of animals being kept at the premises;
- (b) the premises are unsuitable for keeping the pet because of a lack of appropriate fencing, open space or another thing necessary to humanely accommodate the pet;
- (c) keeping the pet is likely to cause damage to the premises or inclusions that could not practicably be repaired for a cost that is less than the amount of the rental bond for the premises;
- (d) keeping the pet would pose an unacceptable risk to the health and safety of a person, including, for example, because the pet is venomous;
- (e) keeping the pet would contravene a law;
- (f) keeping the pet would contravene a body corporate by-law or park rule applying to the premises;
- (g) the tenant has not agreed to the reasonable conditions proposed by the lessor for approval to keep the pet;
- (h) the animal stated in the request is not a pet;
- (i) if the premises is a moveable dwelling premises—keeping the pet would contravene a condition of a licence applying to the premises;
- (j) another ground prescribed by regulation.