Tasmanian Greens MPs

Amendment

New Clause A to follow Clause 9 was brought up by Ms Standen and read the First time as follows:

“A          Section 45 Amended

Section 45 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

In subsection (3), after subparagraph (ca), to insert the following new subparagraph:

(cb)        where the notice to vacate is served on the grounds of failure to pay rent and the arrears to which the notice to vacate relates are arrears in rent to which a rent arrears payment order made under section 24A relates:

(i)           if a condition of the rent arrears payment order has been contravened, that the contravention in all the circumstances justifies terminating the agreement; or

(ii)          if each part of the total amount of rent in arrears, that is required under the rent arrears payment order to be paid within a period, specified in the order, that has expired and has not been paid before the end of that period, that the failure to comply in all the circumstances justifies terminating the agreement; and”