New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1987 - SECT 23

23 Use of premises by tenant

(1) It is a term of every residential tenancy agreement that:

(a) the tenant shall not use the residential premises, or cause or permit the premises to be used, for any illegal purpose,

(b) the tenant shall not cause or permit a nuisance, and

(c) the tenant shall not interfere, or cause or permit any interference, with the reasonable peace, comfort or privacy of any neighbour of the tenant.

(2) The tenant under a residential tenancy agreement entered into in respect of social housing premises is taken to have breached a term of the agreement if the tenant, or any person who, although not a tenant, is occupying (or jointly occupying) the residential premises with the consent of the tenant:

(a) intentionally or negligently causes or permits damage to any property adjoining or adjacent to the premises (including any property available for use by the tenant in common with others), or

(b) uses any property adjoining or adjacent to the premises (including any property that is available for use by the tenant in common with others) for the purposes of the manufacture or sale of any prohibited drug within the meaning of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 .