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Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008
sec.365AFalse or misleading information in notice to leave
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### sec.365A False or misleading information in notice to leave
This section applies in relation to the following notices to leave—
a notice to leave for sale contract;
a notice to leave for significant repair or renovations;
a notice to leave for demolition or redevelopment;
a notice to leave for change of use;
a notice to leave for owner occupation.
A lessor or lessor’s agent must not give a tenant a notice to leave containing information the lessor or agent knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
Subsection (2) does not apply if the lessor or lessor’s agent, when giving information in a document—
tells the tenant, to the best of the lessor or agent’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and
if the lessor or agent has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the tenant the correct information.
s 365A ins 2021 No. 19 s 75
(sec.365A-ssec.1) This section applies in relation to the following notices to leave— a notice to leave for sale contract; a notice to leave for significant repair or renovations; a notice to leave for demolition or redevelopment; a notice to leave for change of use; a notice to leave for owner occupation.
(sec.365A-ssec.2) A lessor or lessor’s agent must not give a tenant a notice to leave containing information the lessor or agent knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
(sec.365A-ssec.3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the lessor or lessor’s agent, when giving information in a document— tells the tenant, to the best of the lessor or agent’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and if the lessor or agent has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the tenant the correct information.
- (a) a notice to leave for sale contract;
- (b) a notice to leave for significant repair or renovations;
- (c) a notice to leave for demolition or redevelopment;
- (d) a notice to leave for change of use;
- (e) a notice to leave for owner occupation.
- (a) tells the tenant, to the best of the lessor or agent’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and
- (b) if the lessor or agent has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the tenant the correct information.