Residential Tenancies Amendment Regulations 1994 (WA)

9 September 19941 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4629

FT301 RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1987

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1994

Made by His Excellency the C-overnor in Executive Council.
Citation

1.     These regulations may be cited as the Residential Tenancies Amendment

Regulations 1994.

Principal regulations

2. In these regulations the Residential Tenancies Regulations 1989* are

referred to as the principal regulations.

[* Published in Gazette of 9 August 1989 at pp.	2563-85.
For amendments to 20 July 1994 see 1993 Index to Legislation of	Western Australia, Table 4, p. 223.]

Regulation 5C inserted

3. After regulation 5B of the principal regulations the following regulation
is inserted —

a

Exemptions for employment-linked tenancy agreements

5C. (1) A residential tenancy agreement by which —

(a)	an employer grants to an employee a right to occupy premises;
(b)	employment with that employer is a condition of the employee having that right;
(c)	the rent is calculated as a proportion of the employee's salary or wage; and
(d)	the employee receives a pay slip or salary advice detailing the rent component deducted from the wage or salary,

is prescribed under section 6 (a) of the Act as a residential tenancy agreement to which section 30 (1) of the Act shall not apply.

(2) If the method of payment of rent under a residential tenancy agreement described in subregulation (1) is by direct deduction of a percentage of the employee's wage or salary by the employer, that residential tenancy agreement is also prescribed to which section 33 of the Act shall not apply. under section 6 (a) of the Act as a residential tenancy agreement

By His Excellency's Command, D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.

Regulation 19 amended

4.     Regulation 19 (1) of the principal regulations is amended by deleting

"6 per cent" and substituting the following —

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Schedule 2 amended

5.     Schedule 2 to the principal regulations is amended in clause 15 in the

paragraph commencing "INTEREST" by deleting "6 per cent" in the 2 places

where it occurs and substituting in each case the following —

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