Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Where 2 or more
tenants under a residential tenancy agreement are jointly liable under the
agreement to pay an amount to the lessor and one of the tenants (the first
tenant ) pays another tenant’s portion of that amount, the first tenant
may apply to a competent court for an order that the other tenant pay to the
first tenant the other tenant’s portion.
(2) The court hearing
the application may —
(a) make
the order referred to in subsection (1); and
(b)
order the payment of compensation to the first tenant by the other tenant for
loss or injury, other than personal injury, caused by a failure by the other
tenant to pay that tenant’s portion of the amount referred to in
subsection (1); and
(c) make
such ancillary or incidental order as the court considers appropriate.
[Section 17A inserted: No. 60 of 2011 s. 15.]