RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1995 - SECT 105E
RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1995 - SECT 105E
105E—Permissible consideration and statutory charges
(1) A proprietor must
not require or receive from a resident or prospective resident a payment,
other than rent or a bond (or both), under a rooming house agreement, or as a
condition to entering into, renewing or extending a rooming house agreement.
Maximum penalty: $25 000.
(2) It is a term of a
rooming house agreement that the proprietor must bear all statutory charges
imposed in respect of the accommodation.
(3) However, the
proprietor may require a resident to make a payment—
(a) for
rates and charges for water supply; or
(b) for
the provision of electricity, gas or telephone services at the premises; or
(c) for
meals or other facilities or services (such as meals, cleaning and laundry of
linen) provided by the proprietor,
if the proprietor has, before the facilities or services were made available
or provided to the resident, informed the resident in writing of the basis on
which charges for those facilities or services would be made.
(4) A proprietor must,
before requiring a resident to make a payment for facilities or services, give
the resident an itemised account setting out the resident's proportional use
of the facilities or services.
Maximum penalty: $20 000.