Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 - SECT 86

Notice to specify grounds

86. Notice to specify grounds



(1) A notice to quit shall specify the ground relied upon and shall give the
particulars thereof and, except as is provided in subsection (2) of this
section, in the proceedings the lessor shall not be entitled to rely upon any
ground not so specified or of which particulars are not so given.

(2) The Tribunal may, if it thinks it proper in the circumstances of any case,
allow the lessor to rely on any prescribed ground which was not specified or
particulars of which were not given in the notice to quit, and in any such
case the Tribunal may order the lessor to pay any costs of the lessee which in
the opinion of the Tribunal have been or may be occasioned to the lessee by
the failure so to specify the ground or give particulars thereof in the notice
to quit.