New Zealand Legislation: Acts

21 Tenant may pay bond direct to chief executive with landlord's consent

• (1) Notwithstanding anything in section 19 or section 20, but subject to subsection (2), any amount payable by way of bond may, with the consent of the landlord, be paid direct to the chief executive.

  (2) Every such payment shall be accompanied by a statement of particulars in the approved form signed by the landlord and the tenant.

  (3) Where any amount payable by way of bond is paid direct to the chief executive, the chief executive shall—

  • (a) deposit the money into the Residential Tenancies Trust Account:

  • (b) give to the tenant a written receipt showing—

    • (i) the address of the premises to which the payment relates; and

    • (ii) the name of the landlord; and

    • (iii) the name of the tenant; and

    • (iv) the amount and nature of the payment; and

    • (v) the date of the receipt by the chief executive of the payment:

  • (c) give to the landlord a copy of the receipt issued in accordance with paragraph (b).

  Section 21: substituted, on 18 August 1992, by section 4 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 79).

  Section 21(2): substituted, on 1 May 1996, by section 9 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 7).

  Section 21(2): amended, on 1 October 2010, by section 17 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 95).