Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A lessor who
causes or permits interference with the reasonable peace, comfort or privacy
of the tenant in the tenant’s use of the premises commits an offence.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $10 000.
(2) The liability of a
person in civil proceedings is not affected by the commencement of proceedings
against the person for an offence under subsection (1) or the conviction of
the person in proceedings for the offence.
(3) When a charge of
an offence under subsection (1) relates to a failure by the lessor to give the
tenant a copy of a key to the premises, it is a defence to the charge to prove
that —
(a) the
copy of the key had been given to the lessor under section 45(2)(b); and
(b) the
tenant was a person to whom the lessor was instructed not to give the copy of
the key under section 45(2)(c)(ii).
[Section 59E inserted: No. 60 of 2011 s. 56;
amended: No. 3 of 2019 s. 14 and 25.]