New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL PARKS ACT 1998 - SECT 48

48 Rent receipts

(cf RT Act s 40)

(1) If rent under a residential tenancy agreement is paid in person, any person who receives payment of the rent must, without delay, give to the person making the payment a receipt for the payment.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(2) If rent is not paid in person, the park owner or the park manager must, on receipt of the rent, prepare or cause to be prepared a receipt for the rent and make the receipt available for collection by the resident or post it to the resident.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(3) A receipt for rent is not a receipt for the purposes of this section unless it includes the following particulars:

(a) the name and address of the residential park, and the number of the residential site,

(b) whether the resident is in debit or credit as at the date of payment and by what amount,

(c) the period for which the rent is paid,

(d) the date on which the rent is received,

(e) the amount of rent paid.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(4) This section does not apply to rent paid in accordance with an agreement between the park owner and the resident into an account at a bank, building society, credit union or other similar body nominated by the park owner.