Western Australian Current Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1987 - SECT 59B

59B .         Death of one of 2 or more tenants

        (1)         This section applies if —

            (a)         2 or more tenants are parties to a residential tenancy agreement; and

            (b)         the tenants are not joint tenants under the agreement; and

            (c)         one of the tenants dies.

        (2)         On the death of the tenant —

            (a)         the deceased tenant’s interest in the tenancy ends; and

            (b)         the agreement continues in force with the parties to the agreement being the lessor and the surviving tenant or tenants.

        (3)         Subsection (2) does not affect, as between the deceased tenant and the surviving tenant or tenants, any right (including, in particular, a right relating to a security bond) or liability of the deceased tenant existing immediately before the deceased tenant’s death.

        [Section 59B inserted: No. 60 of 2011 s. 56.]