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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1995 - SECT 66D

66D—Grounds for refusing pets being kept on premises

For the purposes of this Division, the following are the only grounds for a landlord to refuse a tenant’s application for approval to keep a pet on premises:

            (a)         keeping the pet would exceed a reasonable number of animals being kept on 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 would pose an unacceptable risk to the health or safety of a person, including, for example, because the pet is venomous;

            (d)         keeping the pet would contravene a law;

            (e)         keeping the pet would contravene a by-law or rule applying to the premises under this or any other Act or law;

            (f)         the tenant has not agreed to the reasonable conditions proposed by the landlord for approval to keep the pet, provided that the conditions are in accordance with section 66C(8) to (10) (inclusive);

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

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

                  (i)         any other ground prescribed by regulation.



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