Section 61Residential Tenancies Act 2010 (NSW)

Tenant’s remedies relating to access to premises

(1) The Tribunal may, on application by a tenant, make an order specifying or limiting the days and times, and purposes for which, entry to the residential premises by a landlord, landlord’s agent, agent for the sale of the residential premises or other persons is authorised.
(2) The Tribunal may, on application by a tenant, order the landlord or the landlord’s agent to pay compensation to the tenant for damage to or loss of the tenant’s goods caused by any person in the exercise of a power of the landlord or landlord’s agent to enter residential premises under this Act or the residential tenancy agreement.

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