Queensland Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES AND ROOMING ACCOMMODATION ACT 2008 - SECT 365A

365A False or misleading information in notice to leave

(1) This section applies in relation to the following notices to leave—

(a) a notice to leave for sale contract;

(b) a notice to leave for significant repair or renovations;

(c) a notice to leave for demolition or redevelopment;

(d) a notice to leave for change of use;

(e) a notice to leave for owner occupation.

(2) A lessor or lessor’s agent must not give a tenant a notice to leave containing information the lessor or agent knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the lessor or lessor’s agent, when giving information in a document—

(a) tells the tenant, to the best of the lessor or agent’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and

(b) if the lessor or agent has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the tenant the correct information.