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HOUSING ACT 1983 - SECT 144

Power to terminate existing leases

    (1)     The Director, after giving not less than 90 days' notice to a co-operative specified in Schedule 9, may terminate any lease existing on 1 July 2005 between the Director and that co-operative.

    (2)     The Director may refuse to renew any lease existing on 1 July 2005 between the Director and a co-operative specified in Schedule 9.

    (3)     Subsections (1) and (2) apply despite any option to renew in the relevant lease.

    (4)     No compensation is payable by the Director to a co-operative for—

        (a)     the termination under this section of a lease with the co-operative; or

        (b)     a refusal under this section to renew any lease with the co-operative.

    (5)     If a co-operative specified in Schedule 9 changes its name before, on or after 1 July 2005, the reference to the co-operative in this section is to be taken to be a reference to a co-operative by its new name.

S. 144(6) inserted by No. 40/2022 s. 43(3).

    (6)     On and from the commencement of section 43 of the Residential Tenancies, Housing and Social Services Regulation Amendment (Administration and Other Matters) Act 2022 , a reference to the Director in this section includes a reference to Homes Victoria.

S. 145 inserted by No. 73/2005 s. 4(Sch. 2 item 4).



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