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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1997 - SECT 510

Application to Supreme Court, County Court or Magistrates' Court

    (1)     A person may make an application under this section to a court referred to in section 509 in relation to any matter arising in relation to—

S. 510(1)(a) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 367.

        (a)     a residential rental agreement of premises situated in Victoria; or

        (b)     a right or duty created under this Act in relation to a rooming house; or

S. 510(1)(c) amended by No. 67/2010 s. 72(a).

        (c)     a right or duty created under this Act in relation to a caravan park; or

S. 510(1)(d) inserted by No. 67/2010 s. 72(b).

        (d)     a site agreement in respect of a Part 4A site

being an application that, if made to the Tribunal, the Tribunal would, but for section 447, have been entitled to hear and determine.

    (2)     In addition to its existing powers, the court to which application is made under this section has, in hearing and determining the application, the same powers as the Tribunal would have had if the application had been heard and determined by it.

    (3)     Nothing in section 447 limits the power of a court to hear and determine an application under this section.

    (4)     If a person makes an application to the Supreme Court, being an application that, if made to the Tribunal, the Tribunal would have been entitled to hear and determine, the person is not entitled to any costs in the proceedings unless the Supreme Court is satisfied that, at the time of making the application, there were reasonable grounds for believing that the Tribunal would not have been entitled to hear and determine the application.

S. 510A inserted by No. 52/1998
s. 241.



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