VIC: Residential Tenancies Act Section 142ZH Successive breaches by resident

Successive breaches by resident

(1) A rooming house operator may give a resident a notice to vacate the room occupied by the resident without first serving a breach of duty notice if—

(a) the resident has breached a duty provision; and

(b) on 2 previous occasions the resident has been in breach of the same provision; and

(c) the rooming house operator or the operator's agent has on each occasion referred to in paragraph (b) given a breach of duty notice to the resident.

(2) If the rooming house operator gives a breach of duty notice to the resident in respect of the breach referred to in subsection (1)(a), the rooming house operator must not give the resident a notice to vacate under this section unless the resident has not complied with the breach of duty notice within the required time.

(3) The notice must specify a termination date that is not less than 2 days after the date on which the notice is given.