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Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008
sec.250Supply of locks and keys
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### sec.250 Supply of locks and keys
The provider must supply and maintain the locks that are necessary to ensure the resident’s room is reasonably secure.
The provider must give the resident a key for each lock that secures entry to the following—
the resident’s room;
a building or building within which the resident’s room and common areas are situated.
The resident must not make a copy of a key without the provider’s permission.
The resident must not tamper with a door lock in the premises.
In this section—
resident means a person named in a rooming accommodation agreement as a resident.
(sec.250-ssec.1) The provider must supply and maintain the locks that are necessary to ensure the resident’s room is reasonably secure.
(sec.250-ssec.2) The provider must give the resident a key for each lock that secures entry to the following— the resident’s room; a building or building within which the resident’s room and common areas are situated.
(sec.250-ssec.3) The resident must not make a copy of a key without the provider’s permission.
(sec.250-ssec.4) The resident must not tamper with a door lock in the premises.
(sec.250-ssec.5) In this section— resident means a person named in a rooming accommodation agreement as a resident.
- (a) the resident’s room;
- (b) a building or building within which the resident’s room and common areas are situated.