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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1995 - SECT 52

52—Discrimination against tenants with children

        (1)         A person must not refuse to grant a tenancy to another on the ground that it is intended that a child should live on the premises.

Maximum penalty: $1 000.

        (2)         A person must not—

            (a)         instruct a person not to grant; or

            (b)         state an intention (by advertisement or in any other way) not to grant,

a tenancy on the ground that it is intended that a child should live on the premises.

Maximum penalty: $1 000.

        (3)         However, this section does not apply if the landlord, or an agent appointed by the landlord to manage the premises, resides in the premises to which the tenancy relates or in premises adjacent to those premises.



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