Victorian Current Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 1997 - SECT 439D

    (1)     This section applies if—

S. 439D(1)(a) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 300(1).

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

S. 439D(1)(b) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 300(1)(a).

        (b)     the residential rental provider uses a residential tenancy database for checking whether personal information about the applicant is in the database; and

        (c)     personal information about the applicant is in the database.

S. 439D(2) amended by No. 45/2018 s. 300(2)(3).

    (2)     The residential rental provider must, as soon as possible but within 7 days after using the database, give the applicant a written notice stating—

        (a)     the name of the database; and

        (b)     that personal information about the applicant is in the database; and

        (c)     the name of each person who listed the personal information in the database; and

        (d)     how and in what circumstances the applicant can have the personal information removed or amended under this Part.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

    (3)     Subsection (2)(c) does not apply if the residential tenancy database does not identify the person who listed the personal information in the database.

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