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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1987 - SECT 88

88 .         Regulations

        (1)         The Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), regulations made under that subsection may — 

            (a)         provide for the practice and procedure to be followed, and the payment of fees, in relation to proceedings under this Act;

            (b)         require the parties to a residential tenancy agreement to record on an inspection sheet, before the commencement, and after the termination, of the tenancy, their opinions of the state of the premises and prescribe the form of such inspection sheets and the manner in which the parties record their opinions;

            (c)         require the provision of information by the owner to the tenant at the time of entering into the residential tenancy agreement;

            (d)         prescribe the form of written residential tenancy agreements and authorise or require the use of such form; and

            (e)         prescribe penalties not exceeding $500, for breach of, or non-compliance with, any regulation.

[ 89.         Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e).]



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