s 50
In forceVicarious responsibility of tenant for breach by other person lawfully on premises
Part IVResidential tenancy agreements
Division 2General standard terms
50 Vicarious responsibility of tenant for breach by other person lawfully on premises
(1)
It is a term of every residential tenancy agreement that, where a person other than the tenant is lawfully on the premises, the tenant is vicariously responsible for any act or omission by that person that would, if it had been an act or omission by the tenant, have constituted a breach of the agreement.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not extend to a person who is lawfully on the premises and whose authority to be on the premises does not derive from the permission, express or implied, of the tenant.
[Section 50 amended: No. 60 of 2011 s. 46.]
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