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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1987 - SECT 56

56 .         Discrimination against tenants with children

        (1)         A person shall not refuse, or cause any person to refuse, to grant a tenancy to any person on the ground that it is intended that a child should live in the premises.

        Penalty: $1 000.

        (2)         A person shall not — 

            (a)         instruct any person not to grant; or

            (b)         state his intention, whether by advertisement or otherwise, not to grant,

                a tenancy to any person, if it is intended that a child should live in the premises.

        Penalty: $1 000.

        (3)         This section does not apply where the premises the subject of the tenancy are the principal place of residence of the owner or where the owner or his agent appointed to manage the premises resides in premises adjoining the premises the subject of the tenancy.

        [Section 56 amended by No. 59 of 1995 s. 55.]



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