sec.256EGrounds for refusing pets being kept in resident’s room

### sec.256E Grounds for refusing pets being kept in resident’s room The following are the only grounds for a provider to refuse a resident’s request for approval to keep a stated pet in the resident’s room— keeping the pet would exceed a reasonable number of animals being kept in the room or at the rental premises; the resident’s room is unsuitable for keeping the pet because of a lack of appropriate space or other things necessary to humanely accommodate the pet; keeping the pet is likely to cause damage to the resident’s room or inclusions that could not practicably be repaired for a cost that is less than the amount of the rental bond for the room; 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 house rule applying to the rental premises; the resident has not agreed to the reasonable conditions proposed by the provider for approval to keep the pet; the animal stated in the request is not a pet; another ground prescribed by regulation. Subsection (1) (g) applies only to conditions to which an approval may be subject under section 256F . s 256E ins 2021 No. 19 s 54 (sec.256E-ssec.1) The following are the only grounds for a provider to refuse a resident’s request for approval to keep a stated pet in the resident’s room— keeping the pet would exceed a reasonable number of animals being kept in the room or at the rental premises; the resident’s room is unsuitable for keeping the pet because of a lack of appropriate space or other things necessary to humanely accommodate the pet; keeping the pet is likely to cause damage to the resident’s room or inclusions that could not practicably be repaired for a cost that is less than the amount of the rental bond for the room; 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 house rule applying to the rental premises; the resident has not agreed to the reasonable conditions proposed by the provider for approval to keep the pet; the animal stated in the request is not a pet; another ground prescribed by regulation. (sec.256E-ssec.2) Subsection (1) (g) applies only to conditions to which an approval may be subject under section 256F . - (a) keeping the pet would exceed a reasonable number of animals being kept in the room or at the rental premises; - (b) the resident’s room is unsuitable for keeping the pet because of a lack of appropriate space or other things necessary to humanely accommodate the pet; - (c) keeping the pet is likely to cause damage to the resident’s room or inclusions that could not practicably be repaired for a cost that is less than the amount of the rental bond for the room; - (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 house rule applying to the rental premises; - (g) the resident has not agreed to the reasonable conditions proposed by the provider for approval to keep the pet; - (h) the animal stated in the request is not a pet; - (i) another ground prescribed by regulation.