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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 2010 - SECT 54A
Limit on liability of tenant for actions of other tenants occurring during domestic violence offences
(1) A tenant (the
"exempted tenant" ) is not responsible to the landlord for any act or omission
by a co-tenant that is a breach of the residential tenancy agreement if-- (a)
the act or omission-- (i) constitutes or resulted in damage to the
residential premises, and
(ii) occurred during the commission of a
domestic violence offence, and
(b) the exempted tenant is-- (i) the victim of
the domestic violence offence, or
(ii) an exempted co-tenant.
(2) In this
section--
"exempted co-tenant" means a person who-- (a) is a tenant under the same
residential tenancy agreement as the tenant who is the victim of the
domestic violence offence, and
(b) is not a relevant domestic violence
offender (within the meaning of Division 3A of Part 5) nominated in a document
referred to in section 105C(2) and annexed to a domestic violence
termination notice (within the meaning of section 105A) for the
residential tenancy agreement.
(3) This section is a term of every
residential tenancy agreement.
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