New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1987 - SECT 40

40 Rent receipts

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

(2) If rent is not paid in person, the landlord or the landlord’s agent shall, 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 tenant or post it to the tenant.

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

(a) the name of the person who receives the rent or on whose behalf the rent is received,

(b) the name of the person paying the rent or on whose behalf the rent is paid,

(c) the address of the residential premises for which the rent is paid,

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

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

(f) the amount of rent paid.

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