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DISABILITY ACT 2006 - SECT 62

Offences relating to interference with rights

    (1)     Except in accordance with this Act, a person must not—

        (a)     require or force or attempt to require or force a resident to vacate his or her room; or

        (b)     take or attempt to take possession of a room in which a resident resides.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (2)     Except in accordance with this Act, a person must not, for the purposes of causing a resident to abandon a room

        (a)     interfere with the proper use and enjoyment by the resident of the room; or

        (b)     do any other act or thing intended or designed to cause the resident to abandon the room.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

S. 62(3) amended by No. 9/2023 s. 34.

    (3)     This section does not apply to a restriction or limitation to which section 58(2) or (2A) applies.

Pt 5 Div. 2 (Heading) substituted by No. 22/2012 s. 18.

Division 2—Group homes

S. 63 amended by No. 22/2012 s. 19.



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