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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1997 - SECT 206ZR

Site owner must give tenant certain information

S. 206ZR(1) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 208(1).

    (1)     Before entering into a site agreement, the site owner must give the site tenant a written statement in a form approved by the Director setting out in summary form the rights and duties of a site owner and site tenant under this Act.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

S. 206ZR(2) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 208(1).

    (2)     Before entering into a site agreement, the site owner must give the site tenant a written statement of any other prescribed matters.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

    (3)     If a site owner

        (a)     supplies false information to the site tenant in the statements required to be given by this section; or

        (b)     fails to supply all the information required to be supplied in the statements required to be given by this section—

the site tenant may rescind the site agreement that has been entered into on the basis of that information within 28 days of the date that the site agreement is entered into.

    (4)     If—

        (a)     a notice of intention to acquire land has been served under section 6 of the Land Acquisition and Compensation Act 1986 ; and

        (b)     the land is subject to a site agreement—

the site tenant may rescind the site agreement at any time within 28 days from the date that the site agreement is entered into.

Note to s. 206ZR inserted by No. 45/2018 s. 208(2).

Note

This section is a duty provision and a contravention of this section may be dealt with as a breach of a duty under Part 5 and other provisions of this Act.

S. 206ZS inserted by No. 67/2010 s. 10.



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