RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES

In reply to the Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14 July 2009).

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for State/Local Government Relations, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Enterprises, Minister Assisting the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Energy): I am advised that:

During the 2008-09 financial year, over 15,000 applications for an order of the Residential Tenancies Tribunal were lodged with the Residential Tenancies Tribunal Registry. Of those applications, approximately:

8,900 were lodged by agents (on behalf of landlords);

1,900 were lodged by landlords;

1,950 were lodged by tenants; and

2,250 were lodged by other interested persons or where actions were brought under the Retirement Villages Act 1987 or the Residential Parks Act 2007.