Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A home is any residential premises.
(2) A home includes a part of commercial or industrial premises used as residential premises.
(3) However, a home does not include the following--
(a) premises not intended to be used for permanent habitation;
(b) a guesthouse, hostel or similar residential premises;
(c) a motel, residential club, residential hotel, residential part of licensed premises or serviced apartments;
(d) a hospital, nursing home, aged care home or hostel or retirement village;
(e) residential premises associated with a hospital or educational institution;
(f) residential premises specifically set aside as a place at which specialised care services are supplied to children or disabled persons residing at the place;
(g) a prison or similar establishment;
(h) a caravan;
(i) residential premises declared under a regulation not to be a home if there are reasonable grounds for considering the premises not to be a home.
(4) Subsection (3)(e) applies to residential premises associated with a hospital only if the premises--
(a) are used, or intended to be used, only or mainly by patients of, or staff employed at, the hospital; and
(b) are not a detached dwelling.
(5) Subsection (3)(e) applies to residential premises associated with an educational institution only if the premises--
(a) are used, or intended to be used, only or mainly by students of the institution; and
(b) are not a detached dwelling.
(6) In this section--
caravan means a caravan under the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008.
licensed premises means licensed premises under the Liquor Act 1992.
retirement village means a retirement village under the Retirement Villages Act 1988.