Your landlord cannot unreasonably refuse your request to keep a pet. Learn more about your rights here.
Landlords must apply to ACAT to be able to refuse their tenants’ request for pets. Learn more about your rights here.
While landlords will still need to provide consent, they will only be able to refuse in certain circumstances.
The legislation also gives tenants experiencing domestic violence (DV) the right to end a lease with a week’s notice.
Keeping Pets in Strata Schemes, NSW Young Lawyers Animal Law Committee
PO Box 5172 East Lismore, NSW 2480
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Lucy’s Project would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands across Australia on which we operate. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and acknowledge First Nations communities’ continuing connection to land and water. Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.
Lucy’s Project recognises the strength and resilience of victim-survivors of domestic and family violence/abuse – animal and human. We pay our respects to those who did not survive the violence, and it is to them we dedicate our work to achieve better outcomes.