New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HOUSING ACT 2001 - SECT 58B

58B Termination of lease of registrable person in certain circumstances

(1) The Director-General may, on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Police, by written order terminate the lease of a tenant who is renting public housing and who is a registrable person.

(2) The Commissioner of Police may make a recommendation under this section only if the Commissioner considers that the presence of the tenant at the public housing places any neighbours in the locality or the tenant at risk of being physically harmed or injured.

(3) On termination of the lease, the tenant must vacate the public housing the subject of the lease.

(4) An order of the Director-General under this section terminating a lease operates:

(a) to give the New South Wales Land and Housing Corporation an immediate right to exclusive possession of the premises concerned, and

(b) to authorise any police officer, using such force as is reasonably necessary, to enter the premises concerned and take such steps as are reasonably necessary in order to give the Corporation possession of the premises.

(5) This section extends to a lease entered into before the commencement of this Part.