Title: Residential Tenancies (Databases) AmendmentBill 2015
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Last saved by: Mrs Sandra Flintoft-Silk
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Legislative Council—No 97
As introduced and read a first time, 9 December 2015

Residential Tenancies (Databases) Amendment Bill 2015
Contents

Residential Tenancies (Databases) Amendment Bill 2015

Residential Tenancies (Databases) Amendment Bill 2015
Part 1—Preliminary

Residential Tenancies (Databases) Amendment Bill 2015
Preliminary—Part 1

Residential Tenancies (Databases) Amendment Bill 2015
Part 2—Amendment of Residential Tenancies Act 1995

Residential Tenancies (Databases) Amendment Bill 2015
Amendment of Residential Tenancies Act 1995—Part 2

South Australia
Residential Tenancies (Databases) Amendment Bill 2015
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 1995.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Residential Tenancies Act 1995
3	Amendment of section 99F—Listing can be made only for particular breaches by particular persons
4	Amendment of section 99L—Powers of Tribunal

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Residential Tenancies (Databases) Amendment Act 2015.
2—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Residential Tenancies Act 1995
3—Amendment of section 99F—Listing can be made only for particular breaches by particular persons
	(1)	Section 99F(1)(a)—delete "that has ended"
	(2)	Section 99F(1)(c)—delete paragraph (c) and substitute:
	(c)	the breach—
	(i)	has resulted in the person owing the landlord an amount that is more than the bond for the agreement; or
	(ii)	has resulted in the Tribunal making an order terminating the residential tenancy agreement; or
	(iii)	has been the subject of a notice under section 80 and has not been remedied within the period specified in the notice; and
4—Amendment of section 99L—Powers of Tribunal
Section 99L—after subsection (3) insert:
	(4)	The Tribunal may, on the application of a person whose personal information is in a residential tenancy database, order that the database operator amend or remove the information if the Tribunal is satisfied that the information relates only to a breach of a residential tenancy agreement that was not sufficiently serious to justify termination of the tenancy.

LC GP 228-B: the Hon Dennis Hood MLC