Queensland Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES AND ROOMING ACCOMMODATION ACT 2008 - SECT 396B

396B Provider must not let rental premises for 6 months after ending rooming accommodation for premises being sold

(1) If a rooming accommodation agreement ends because the provider gives the resident a notice requiring the resident to leave the rental premises under section 371A , the provider must not offer rooming accommodation at the premises for 6 months after the day the agreement ends.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(2) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) , it is a defence for the provider to prove that—

(a) the provider genuinely made the rental premises available for sale but no offers, acceptable to the provider, were received; or

Example—

The only offers the provider received were below the provider’s expected sale price.

(b) the provider entered into a contract for the sale of the rental premises but the contract ended without the premises being sold.

Example—

The contract was terminated by the buyer under a term of the contract or a statutory right, including a cooling-off period.