Queensland Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES AND ROOMING ACCOMMODATION ACT 2008 - SECT 256E

256E Grounds for refusing pets being kept in resident’s room

(1) The following are the only grounds for a provider to refuse a resident’s request for approval to keep a stated pet in the resident’s room—

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

(b) the resident’s room is unsuitable for keeping the pet because of a lack of appropriate space or other things necessary to humanely accommodate the pet;

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

(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 house rule applying to the rental premises;

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

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

(i) another ground prescribed by regulation.

(2) Subsection (1) (g) applies only to conditions to which an approval may be subject under section 256F .