Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008 (Qld)

Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008

An Act about residential tenancy agreements, rooming accommodation agreements, and related matters

Chapter 1 Preliminary

Part 1 Introduction

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3 Act binds all persons (1) This Act binds all persons, including the State and, so far as the legislative power of the Parliament permits, the Commonwealth and the other States. (2) However, some provisions of this Act do not apply to the State. Examples of provisions not applying to State— 1 section 91 (Rent increases) 2 section 92 (Tenant's application to tribunal about rent increase) 3 section 163 (Outgoings other than service charges) (3) Nothing in this Act makes the Commonwealth or a State liable to be prosecuted for an offence.

4 Rights and remedies of persons (1) A right or remedy given to a person under this Act is in addition to, and not in substitution for, a right or remedy the person would have apart from this Act. (2) Without limiting subsection (1), this Act does not operate to reduce the effect of a right or remedy a person would have apart from this Act. (3) In subsections (1) and (2), a reference to a right or remedy a person would have apart from this Act is a reference to a right or remedy that is not inconsistent with this Act.

Part 2 Objects of Act

5 Objects of Act (1) The main objects of this Act are to state the rights and obligations of— (a) tenants, lessors and agents for residential tenancies; and (b) residents, providers and agents for rooming accommodation. (2) The objects are mainly achieved by— (a) regulating the making, content, operation and ending of residential tenancy agreements and rooming accommodation agreements; and (b) providing for the resolution of disputes about residential tenancy agreements and rooming accommodation agreements; and (c) providing for the authority to receive, hold and pay rental bonds; and (d) providing for compliance with this Act to be monitored and enforced; and (e) providing for the establishment, functions and powers of the authority.