Victorian Current Acts

RETAIL LEASES ACT 2003 - SECT 28B

    (1)     If a tenant has exercised an option to renew a retail premises lease and has not requested an early rent review under section 28A, the tenant may give the landlord a written notice, in the cooling off period, that the tenant no longer wishes to exercise that option to renew the lease.

    (2)     If the tenant gives the landlord a notice under subsection (1)—

        (a)     the term of the lease is extended by 14 days; and

        (b)     the lease is not, and is taken not to have been, renewed; and

        (c)     the tenant is not able to exercise an option to renew the lease.

    (3)     In this section—

"cooling off period", in relation to a retail premises lease, means the period ending 14 days after the day on which the tenant exercises an option to renew the lease.

Part 5—Rent and outgoings

Division 1—The fit out of the premises