Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROPERTY LAW ACT 1974 - SECT 139

139 Tenant holding over after giving notice to be liable for double rent

(1) Where a lessee who has given notice of intention to quit the land held by the lessee at a time specified in such notice does not accordingly deliver up possession at the time so specified, then, the lessee shall after that time be liable to the lessor for double the rent or sum which would have been payable to the lessor before such notice was given.

(2) Such lessee shall continue to be liable for such double rent or sum during the time the lessee continues in possession, to be recovered by action in any court of competent jurisdiction.