Queensland Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES AND ROOMING ACCOMMODATION ACT 2008 - SECT 420

420 Orders about breach of agreements

(1) If an application about a breach of a residential tenancy agreement or a rooming accommodation agreement is made to a tribunal, the tribunal may make any 1 or more of the following orders—

(a) an order restraining any action in breach of the agreement;

(b) an order for the payment of money;

(c) an order requiring an action in performance of the agreement;

(d) an order that a party to the agreement perform the work, or take the steps, stated in the order to remedy a breach of the agreement;

(e) an order for compensation;

(f) an order requiring payment of all or part of the rent under the agreement to the tribunal until—

(i) the whole or part of the agreement has been performed; or

(ii) an application for compensation has been decided;

(g) an order requiring payment (from rent paid to the tribunal) towards—

(i) the cost of remedying a breach of the agreement; or

(ii) an amount for compensation.

(2) An order under subsection (1) (a) may be made even if it provides a remedy in the nature of an injunction or order for specific performance in circumstances where the remedy would not otherwise be available.