Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A site owner, or that person's agent, must not require a site tenant to pay rent by a cheque or other negotiable instrument that is post-dated.
Penalty: 60 penalty units.
(2) A site owner or that person's agent must ensure that a rent payment method that incurs no additional costs (other than bank fees or account fees payable on the site tenant's bank account) is reasonably available to the site tenant.
Penalty: 60 penalty units.
(3) Without limiting how rent is paid, a site owner or that person's agent must permit the site tenant to pay the 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 site owner and the site tenant, by agreement, may change the manner in which rent is payable under the site agreement.
(5) The site owner, or that person's agent, must give the site tenant information about any costs (including third party transaction fees, direct debit dishonour fees and any other electronic payment facility fees) that the site tenant may incur by using a particular payment method before the site tenant consents to use the payment method.
S. 206U inserted by No. 67/2010 s. 10.