Western Australian Current Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1987 - SECT 80

80 .         Recovery of possession of premises prohibited except by court order

                No person shall except under an order of a competent court enter premises or any part of premises of which a person has possession as a tenant under a residential tenancy agreement or a former tenant holding over after termination of a residential tenancy agreement for the purpose of recovering possession of the premises or part of the premises, whether entry is effected peaceably or otherwise.

        Penalty: a fine of $20 000.

        [Section 80 amended: No. 50 of 1988 s. 18; No. 59 of 1995 s. 55; No. 59 of 2004 s. 120(1); No. 60 of 2011 s. 78 and 88.]