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Thanks for the feedback guys. After that I've whittled it away to pretty much nothing. Still keen to keep an (amended) condition regarding garden maintenance, so a level of maintenance is agreed (or at least acknowledged) - regardless of whether it will hold up in court.

As an aside, I can see one advantage of such an 'info doc' over 'special conditions' being that whilst the former is simply making them aware of the laws, the latter can seem like you are inflicting upon them a bunch of rules that wouldn't apply if they rented someone else's property (even if...

Not enforceable is one thing (90% of the time I think just having the condition there for the tenant to see is enough to avoid the situation arising) - It's being fined by the courts for contracting out of the Act that I'm most concerned about!

Thanks for the feedback thatbum. I don't suppose you could be more specific as to which ones are the default legal position and which ones are getting close to 'contracting out'? Whilst I've read through the Act a couple of times I'm certainly no expert. I did go through it looking out for areas...

FYI these were largely taken from a combination of Special Conditions I have collated over the years from the lease agreements of major Real Estate/Management firms in Perth. All prior to the revisions to the Act, mind you.

So I have just been reading through the revised WA Residential Tenancies Act (scintillating bedtime reading I assure you!) to, amongst other things, make sure that the Special Conditions I have attached to my lease don't contradict the Act. Having reviewed my conditions I thought I'd throw it...