Western Australian Current Regulations

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES REGULATIONS 1989 - REG 4

4 .         Exemption for certain agreements with squatters

        (1)         A residential tenancy agreement to which this regulation applies is a prescribed agreement for the purposes of section 5(2)(g) of the Act.

        (2)         This regulation applies to a residential tenancy agreement between a local government, management body as defined in section 3(1) of the Land Administration Act 1997 , or a State Government agency and an occupant of a coastal shack, for the purposes of implementing the Government’s policy on the removal of squatters from lands of the Crown, being an agreement — 

            (a)         entered into with the approval of the Minister for Lands under power conferred by Order under section 33(2) of the Land Act 1933 ¹ ; or

            (aa)         entered into with the approval of the Minister for Lands under power conferred by Order under section 46(3)(a) of the Land Administration Act 1997 ; or

            (b)         entered into by a State Government agency under powers conferred by another Act, over lands of the Crown vested in that agency.

        [Regulation 4 amended: Gazette 12 Feb 1993 p. 1214; 19 Feb 1999 p. 553.]