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CLAUSE NOTES
Residential Tenancy Amendment Bill 2015
Clause 1: cites the name (short title of the Act)
Clause 2: provides for the Act to be commenced upon receiving Royal
Assent.
Clause 3: identifies that for the purposes of Part 2 of this Act (sections 3,4
and 5), the Principal Act is the Residential Tenancy Act 1997.
Clause 4: returns section 39 to the pre Residential Tenancy Amendment Act
2013 provisions in regards to a tenant issuing a notice to
terminate.
Clause 5: extends the operation of section 57 of the Principal Act to
include situations where a Police Family Violence Order is in
force.
Clause 6: identifies that for the purposes of Part 3 of this Act (sections 6, 7
and 8), the Principal Act is the Residential Tenancy Amendment
Act 2013.
Clause 7: provides flexibility with regard to “heating elements” to require a
premise with three or more bedrooms to have at least three
cooking elements, and all smaller premises to have at least two
cooking elements.
Clause 8: reduces the scope of section 26 to only applying to photographs,
film or video recordings that identify the tenant or another
person.
Clause 9: provides that this amendment act is automatically repealed a
year from commencement.
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