RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1987 - SECT 82G

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1987 - SECT 82G

82G .         Ensuring quality of listing — lessor’s or agent’s obligation

        (1)         This section applies if a lessor or lessor’s agent who lists personal information in a residential tenancy database becomes aware that the information is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous or out-of-date.

        (2)         The lessor or agent must, within 7 days, give written notice of the following to the database operator who operates the database —

            (a)         if the information is inaccurate, incomplete or ambiguous —

                  (i)         that the information is inaccurate, incomplete or ambiguous; and

                  (ii)         how the information must be amended so that it is no longer inaccurate, incomplete or ambiguous;

            (b)         if the information is out-of-date — that the information is out-of-date and must be removed.

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $5 000.

        (3)         The lessor or agent must keep a copy of the written notice for one year after it was given under subsection (2).

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $5 000.

        [Section 82G inserted: No. 60 of 2011 s. 96; amended: No. 3 of 2019 s. 25.]