1Purpose

1 Purpose

The purpose of this Act is—

(a) to foster professionalism and reduce exploitative and undesirable practices within the rooming house sector by—

(i) establishing a licensing scheme for rooming house operators; and

(ii) ensuring that licences are only granted to persons who are fit and proper within the meaning of the Act; and

(iii) holding licensed rooming house operators to account for their conduct and the conduct of persons involved in the management or operation of their rooming houses; and

(iv) protecting the rights of rooming house residents; and

(b) to make consequential amendments to the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012, the Business Licensing Authority Act 1998, the Estate Agents Act 1980 and the Residential Tenancies Act 1997.