Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act 1991 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act 1991

No. 19 of 1991

An Act to amend the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1955

[Notified in ACT Gazette S 36: 10 May 1991]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act 1991.

Principal Act

2.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1955.1

Addition

3.  The Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following Part:

“part ix—occupierS’ liability

Rule in Cavalier v Pope abolished

“29.  A lessor of premises is not exempt from owing a duty of care to persons on those premises by reason only that the lessor is not the occupier of those premises.”

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NOTE

1. Ordinance No. 3, 1955 as amended by No. 14, 1965;  No. 10, 1968;  No. 65, 1977;  No. 95, 1982;  No. 66, 1985;  No. 21, 1989.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 18 April 1991]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1991