Residential Tenancies Act 1997

A person (a competent person) may make a declaration stating that a tenant, or a dependent child of the tenant, has experienced family violence (a competent person declaration).

However, the competent person must not make a competent person declaration in relation to the tenant or child unless the tenant or child has previously consulted the competent person as part of the competent person’s professional practice.

The declaration must include any information prescribed by regulation.

A regulation may prescribe a person, or a class of people, to be a competent person.

For subsection (1), a competent person may collect, hold, use or disclose personal information about a person who is or was—

a co-tenant of the tenant; or

a family member of the tenant or child.

In this section:

family member—see the Family Violence Act 2016, section 9.