Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts (1) The Governor may
make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by
this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed,
for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.
(2) Without limiting
the generality of subsection (1), regulations made under that subsection
may —
(a)
require the parties to a long-stay agreement to record on an inspection sheet,
before the commencement, and after the termination, of the tenancy, their
opinions of the state of the premises and prescribe the form of such
inspection sheets and the manner in which the parties record their opinions;
(b)
prescribe the matters for which a park operator is entitled to charge
long-stay tenants a fee that is additional to any amount payable under the
long-stay agreement;
(c)
prescribe the maximum amount that is payable in respect of a matter prescribed
under paragraph (b);
(d)
require the provision of information by the park operator to the long-stay
tenant or prospective long-stay tenant at the time of entering into the
long-stay agreement;
(e)
provide for payment out of tenancy bond accounts of security bond amounts and
amounts of accrued interest, and for the repayment or distribution of the
amounts paid out; and
(f)
prescribe the matters to be provided for in park rules, and may regulate the
manner in which the provision for those matters is to be made.
(3) Regulations made
under subsection (1) may —
(a)
impose a penalty not exceeding $5 000 for offences against the
regulations; and
(b)
provide for penalties not exceeding $500 for each separate and further offence
under the Interpretation Act 1984 section 71(2).