Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 - SECT 75

Penalty for demanding excess rent

75. Penalty for demanding excess rent



(1) Any person who, whether as principal or agent or in any other capacity, in
any rent book or similar document wilfully makes any entry showing or
purporting to show any lessee as being in arrear in respect of any sum which
by virtue of this Division is irrecoverable, shall be guilty of an offence
against this Part.

(2) Any person who, whether as principal or agent in any other capacity,
wilfully demands or wilfully receives as rent in respect of any prescribed
premises any sum which by virtue of this Division is irrecoverable, shall be
guilty of an offence against this Part.

(3) Any person who is knowingly a party to any contract or arrangement under
which any sum is paid or agreed to be paid to that person as rent for any
prescribed premises shall, if that sum is by virtue of this Division
irrecoverable, be guilty of an offence against this Part.