Page 614 - Week 02 - Thursday, 21 February 2019
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Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill 2018 (No 2)
Detail stage
Debate resumed.
Clause 1 agreed to.
Clauses 2 to 4, by leave, taken together.
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (3.30): Madam Assistant Speaker, this is a purely procedural question. I have not been given a script.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Cody): Ms Le Couteur, I understand that you have a script that may be able to provide you with some direction. If you resume your seat you can have a look for it.
MR COE (Yerrabi—Leader of the Opposition) (3.31): Madam Assistant Speaker, I propose that the Assembly suspend for five or 10 minutes.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: The sitting will be suspended and the chair will be resumed at the ringing of the bells.
At 3.31 the sitting was suspended until the ringing of the bells.
The bells having been rung, Madam Assistant Speaker resumed the chair at 3.34.
Clauses 2 to 4 agreed to.
Proposed new clauses 4A to 4C.
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (3.34): I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name which inserts new clauses 4A to 4C, and table a supplementary explanatory statement to the amendments [see schedule 1 at page 630].
First, thank you, Madam Assistant Speaker, and all concerned for finding me a set of instructions, because it will all be a lot easier with these. Hopefully, it will all go right.
This is new section 11AA, as I understand it. This clause requires that certain conditions must be advertised, being either of a term that is inconsistent with a standard residential tenancy agreement that has been endorsed by ACAT, a term requiring the lessor’s consent to keep an animal at the property, and any other conditions regarding the keeping of animals at that property that have been endorsed by the ACAT.
This proposed new section will provide prospective tenants with the information that will assist their decision-making regarding whether or not to inspect or apply for a particular rental property. It responds to proposed new section 71AE(4)(b) in the bill,
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