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South Australia
Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous) Amendment
Bill 2016
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Residential
Tenancies Act 1995
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Residential
Tenancies Act 1995
4Amendment of section 72—Right of
entry
5Amendment of section 85A—Termination by
tenant if residential premises for sale
6Amendment of section 97B—Action to deal
with abandoned property other than personal documents
Schedule 2—Transitional
provisions—Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous) Amendment
Act 2016
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous)
Amendment Act 2016.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Residential Tenancies
Act 1995
4—Amendment
of section 72—Right of entry
(1) Section 72(1)(d)—after subparagraph (ii) insert:
(iii) at the request of the tenant; or
(2) Section 72(1)(e)—after "only" insert:
at the request of the tenant, or
(3) Section 72(1)(f)—delete "during the period of 28 days
preceding the termination of the tenancy agreement, but only on a reasonable
number of occasions and only at a time within normal hours of which the tenant
has been given reasonable notice; or" and substitute:
—
(i) at the request of the tenant; or
(ii) during the period of 28 days preceding the termination of the tenancy
agreement, but only on a reasonable number of occasions and only at a time
within normal hours of which the tenant has been given reasonable notice;
or
5—Amendment
of section 85A—Termination by tenant if residential premises for
sale
Section 85A—after its present contents (now to be designated as
subsection (1)) insert:
(2) A notice of termination under subsection (1) must, if the
landlord has given written notice advising the tenant of the contract for the
sale of the residential premises (whether in accordance with section 71A(2)
or otherwise), be given to the landlord within 2 months after the day on
which the notice was given to the tenant.
6—Amendment
of section 97B—Action to deal with abandoned property other than personal
documents
Section 97B—after subsection (2) insert:
(2a) The landlord must, within the period of 2 days after recovering
possession of the premises, allow the tenant access to the premises to reclaim
abandoned property.
After Schedule 1 insert:
Schedule 2—Transitional
provisions—Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous) Amendment
Act 2016
1—Interpretation
In this Schedule—
amending Act means the
Residential
Tenancies (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 2016
.
2—Operation of amendments
(1) Section 72 as amended by section 4 of the amending Act applies to
a residential tenancy agreement whether the agreement was entered into before or
after the commencement of that section of the amending Act.
(2) Subsection (2) of section 85A as inserted by section 5 of the
amending Act does not apply to a residential tenancy agreement entered into
before the commencement of that subsection.
(3) Subsection (2a) of section 97B as inserted by section 6 of the
amending Act applies in respect of abandoned property left on residential
premises whether the property was left on the premises before or after the
commencement of that subsection.