Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 - SECT 85

Notice to quit where dwelling-house sold

85. Notice to quit where dwelling-house sold



(1) A person who becomes the lessor of prescribed premises, being a
dwelling-house, by purchase transfer or assignment thereof or of a lease
thereof or by the grant of a lease thereof concurrent with the existing lease
or a person claiming or deriving title under or through a person who becomes
the lessor in any such manner shall not, within a period of twelve months
after the date of the agreement for the purchase transfer or assignment
thereof or of the lease thereof or of the grant of the concurrent lease (as
the case requires), give a notice to quit on the ground specified in paragraph
(g) of subsection (6) of section eighty-two of this Act to any person who was
a lessee of the prescribed premises at the date of the agreement for the
purchase transfer or assignment thereof or the lease thereof or of the grant
of the concurrent lease (as the case requires).

(2) A lessor of prescribed premises, being a dwelling-house, shall not give a
notice to quit on the ground specified in paragraph (n) of subsection (6) of
section eighty-two of this Act to any person who was a lessee of the
prescribed premises at the date of the agreement referred to in that paragraph
within a period of twelve months after the date of the agreement.