Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to a lessor or lessor's agent only if at least some of the terms of the agreement are required to be in writing.
(2) The lessor or lessor's agent must--
(a) prepare, in the approved form, a condition report for the premises and any inclusions; and
(b) sign the report; and
(c) give 2 copies of the report to the tenant as required by this section.
Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.
(3) The lessor or lessor's agent must give the copies to the tenant--
(a) if paragraph (b) does not apply--when the written agreement is given to the tenant for signing; or
(b) if the tenant is not entitled to occupy the premises under the agreement until a day (the occupation day) that is later than the day the lessor or agent gives the written agreement to the tenant for signing (the delivery day)--at a time in the period starting at the start of the delivery day and ending at the end of the occupation day.
(3A) Despite subsection (3), if a written agreement is not given to the tenant for signing before the day (also the occupation day) the tenant becomes entitled to occupy the premises under the agreement, the lessor or lessor's agent must give the copies to the tenant on the occupation day.
(4) The tenant must, within the required period--
(a) sign the copies; and
(b) if the tenant does not agree with the report--show the parts of the report the tenant disagrees with by marking the copies in an appropriate way; and
(c) return a copy to the lessor or lessor's agent.
Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.
(5) For subsection (4), the required period is--
(a) if the copies of the report are given to the tenant under subsection (3)(a)--the period ending 3 days after receiving the copies; or
(b) if the copies of the report are given to the tenant under subsection (3)(b) or (3A)--the period ending 3 days after the occupation day.
(6) The lessor or lessor's agent must keep, at least until 6 months after the agreement ends--
(a) the signed copy of the report returned to the lessor or agent by the tenant; or
(b) if the tenant does not return a signed copy--another copy of the report.
Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.
(7) If the lessor is the State, this section does not apply until a date prescribed under a regulation.