Victorian Current Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1997 - SECT 30C

    (1)     A residential rental provider or that person's agent must not request a person who applies to enter into a residential rental agreement to disclose the prescribed information.

Penalty:     60 penalty units in the case of a natural person;

300 penalty units in the case of a body corporate.

S. 30C(2) inserted by No. 40/2022 s. 11.

    (2)     Nothing in this section prevents a residential rental provider which is an entity specified in subsection (3) from requesting a renter or an applicant for affordable housing or social housing to provide any statement from an ADI containing daily transactions that only includes credit transactions or that excludes debit transactions for—

        (a)     the renter's or the applicant's account; or

        (b)     an account of any other adult member of the renter's or the applicant's household.

Example

A redacted statement.

S. 30C(3) inserted by No. 40/2022 s. 11.

    (3)     For the purposes of subsection (2), the following are specified entities—

        (a)     Homes Victoria or its agent;

        (b)     a registered agency or the registered agency's agent;

        (c)     an authorised person (within the meaning of section 4(1) of the Housing Act 1983 ) who provides rented premises for a purpose referred to in section 142A(2)(a) of that Act;

        (d)     a person who provides rented premises in accordance with a determination made under section 142E of the Housing Act 1983 ;

        (e)     a person who provides rented premises as affordable housing within the meaning of section 3AA of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 ;

        (f)     a residential rental provider of rented premises which are subject to a current allocation under the National Rental Affordability Scheme;

        (g)     an entity that provides rented premises as affordable housing in accordance with the Victorian Affordable Housing Programs.

S. 30C(4) inserted by No. 40/2022 s. 11.

    (4)     Despite subsection (2), a renter or an applicant may provide a statement from an ADI that is not redacted and includes credit transactions and debit transactions for an account referred to in subsection (2)(a) or (b).

S. 30D inserted by No. 45/2018 s. 21 (as amended by No. 47/2019 s. 62).