Victorian Current Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1997 - SECT 439C

    (1)     This section applies if—

S. 439C(1)(a) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 299(1).

        (a)     a person (the applicant ) applies to a residential rental provider to enter into a residential rental agreement; and

S. 439C(1)(b) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 299(1).

        (b)     the residential rental provider usually uses one or more residential tenancy databases for deciding whether a residential rental agreement should be entered into with a person.

S. 439C(2) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 299(2)(a)(3).

    (2)     The residential rental provider must, when the application is made, give the applicant written notice stating the following—

S. 439C(2)(a) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 299(2).

        (a)     the name of each residential tenancy database the residential rental provider usually uses, or may use, for deciding whether a residential rental agreement should be entered into with a person;

S. 439C(2)(b) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 299(2)(a).

        (b)     that the reason the residential rental provider uses a residential tenancy database referred to in paragraph (a) is for checking an applicant's tenancy history;

        (c)     for each residential tenancy database referred to in paragraph (a), how persons may contact the database operator who operates the database and obtain information from the operator.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

S. 439C(3) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 299(4).

    (3)     Subsection (2) applies in relation to a residential tenancy database whether or not the residential rental provider intends to use the database for deciding whether a residential rental agreement should be entered into with the applicant.

S. 439C(4) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 299(5).

    (4)     However, the residential rental provider is not required to give the written notice referred to in subsection (2) if a written notice stating the matters referred to in that subsection was given to the applicant not more than 7 days before the application was made.

Example to s. 439C(4) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 299(6).

Example

The residential rental provider gave a written notice stating the matters referred to in subsection (2) to the applicant when the applicant obtained the application form and that was less than 7 days before the applicant made the application.

S. 439D inserted by No. 67/2010 s. 90.