New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LANDLORD AND TENANT (AMENDMENT) ACT 1948 - SECT 88

88 Threats and boycotts prohibited

(1) A person shall not, by any threat, or in any other manner, endeavour to dissuade or prevent a lessor or lessee from making or prosecuting any application under this Act, or taking or continuing any proceedings in relation to which this Act applies.

(2) The owner of any prescribed premises, and the agent of any such owner, shall not refuse, or procure any person to refuse, to lease the premises to any other person who desires to lease the same if the reason for that refusal was the fact that that other person had made an application to a Board or the Director-General under this Act or the Commonwealth Regulations.

(3) In any prosecution for an offence arising under subsection (2), where all the facts and circumstances constituting the contravention, other than the reason for the refusal, are proved, it shall lie upon the defendant to prove that the reason for the refusal was not the reason alleged in the charge.

(4) A person shall not do, or procure to be done, any act or thing for the purpose of imposing any detriment or disadvantage upon a lessor or lessee because the lessor or lessee has made an application under this Act or the Commonwealth Regulations or has taken any proceedings in relation to which this Act applies or the Commonwealth Regulations applied.