Section 140 — Residential Tenancies Act 1986: Regulations relating to other matters

140 Regulations relating to other matters The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes: (a) Prescribing forms to be used for any purposes under this Act: (b) Prescribing fees to be paid in respect of any matter under this Act, and specifying the circumstances in which any such fee may be waived or remitted in whole or in part: (c) Requiring the provision of specified information by the landlord to the tenant at the commencement of a tenancy agreement: (d) Providing for the payment of bonds by instalments; and providing for a landlord to be indemnified or protected in some other way from any loss arising out of the failure by the tenant to pay all the required instalments: (da) Prescribing the method by which payments are to be made to the chief executive: (e) Prescribing offences in respect of the contravention of or non-compliance with any regulations made under this Act, and the amounts of fines that may be imposed in respect of any such offences, which fines shall be an amount not exceeding $1,000 and, where the offence is a continuing one, a further amount not exceeding $100 for every day or part of day during which the offence has continued: (f) Providing for such other matters as are contemplated by or necessary for giving full effect to the provisions of this Act and for its due administration. (2) Regulations under this section that prescribe the circumstances in which a fee may be waived or remitted in whole or in part may specify, as circumstances in which fees payable by landlords and tenants may be waived or remitted in whole or in part,— (a) The fact that a bond of not less than a prescribed number of weeks' rent has been paid in accordance with section 19 or section 21 of this Act, as the case may be: (b) The fact that an address for service has been notified under section 15 or section 16 of this Act, as the case may be. (3) Nothing in subsection (2)(a) of this section limits or affects section 18(1) of this Act. Compare: Residential Tenancies Act, 1978-1981 (South Australia),

s 95 Subsection (1)(da) was inserted, as from 1 May 1996, by section 49(2) Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 7). Subsections (2) and (3) were inserted, as from 18 August 1992, by section 17 Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 79).