Queensland Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES AND ROOMING ACCOMMODATION ACT 2008 - SECT 184E

184E Grounds for refusing pets being kept at premises

(1) The following are the only grounds for a lessor to refuse a tenant’s request for approval to keep a stated pet at the premises—

(a) keeping the pet would exceed a reasonable number of animals being kept at the premises;

(b) the premises are unsuitable for keeping the pet because of a lack of appropriate fencing, open space or another thing necessary to humanely accommodate the pet;

(c) keeping the pet is likely to cause damage to the premises or inclusions that could not practicably be repaired for a cost that is less than the amount of the rental bond for the premises;

(d) keeping the pet would pose an unacceptable risk to the health and safety of a person, including, for example, because the pet is venomous;

(e) keeping the pet would contravene a law;

(f) keeping the pet would contravene a body corporate by-law or park rule applying to the premises;

(g) the tenant has not agreed to the reasonable conditions proposed by the lessor for approval to keep the pet;

(h) the animal stated in the request is not a pet;

(i) if the premises is a moveable dwelling premises—keeping the pet would contravene a condition of a licence applying to the premises;

(j) another ground prescribed by regulation.

(2) Subsection (1) (g) applies only to conditions to which an approval may be subject under section 184F .