Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A caravan park owner or a caravan owner, or that person's agent, must not require a resident to pay a hiring charge or rent by a cheque or other negotiable instrument that is post-dated.
Penalty: 60 penalty units.
(2) A caravan park owner or a caravan owner, or that person's agent, must ensure that a hiring charge or rent payment method that incurs no additional costs (other than bank fees or account fees payable on the resident's bank account) is reasonably available to the resident.
Penalty: 60 penalty units.
(3) A caravan park owner or a caravan owner, or that person's agent, must permit the resident to pay the hiring charge or rent by the following payment methods—
(a) the bill paying service known as Centrepay administered by the Department of Human Services of the Commonwealth;
(b) any prescribed payment method.
(4) Without limiting subsection (3), the caravan park owner or the caravan owner (as the case requires) and the resident, by agreement, may change the manner in which the hiring charge or rent is payable under the agreement made under section 144.
(5) The caravan park owner or the caravan owner or that person's agent (as the case requires), must give the resident information about any costs (including third party transaction fees, direct debit dishonour fees and any other electronic payment facility fees) that the resident may incur by using a particular payment method before the resident consents to use the payment method.