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66D: Bond of 1 week’s rent or less
or “If you pay a small bond for your boarding house room, the landlord must give you a receipt and return your money when you leave, unless you owe them something.”
You could also call this:

“The landlord pays for shared costs, while you pay for what you use in your own room.”

The landlord is responsible for paying all costs related to the boarding house. This includes costs that happen even when no one is living there, costs for shared areas, and costs for rooms that more than one tenant uses.

The landlord must pay for things like general rates (a type of tax) and insurance for the boarding house.

If you’re a tenant and you have a room all to yourself, you need to pay for costs that are just for your room. This means you pay for your own electricity and gas if they are measured separately for your room. You also pay for your own telephone and Internet in your room.

If the landlord gives you extra services that aren’t part of your rent, they must give you a list each week. This list will show what services you got and how much you need to pay for them.

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Next up: 66F: Tenancy not assignable by tenant

or “You can't give your boarding house room to someone else to live in.”
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Part 2A Boarding house tenancies
Boarding house tenancy agreements

66EOutgoings

  1. The landlord is responsible for all outgoings in respect of the boarding house that are incurred—

  2. whether or not the boarding house is occupied; or
    1. for common facilities; or
      1. in respect of rooms that are occupied by more than 1 tenant.

        1. Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the landlord is responsible for the cost of—

        2. the general rate (within the meaning of section 13 of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002) payable in respect of the boarding house; and
          1. insurance premiums payable in respect of the boarding house.

            1. A tenant is responsible for all outgoings that are exclusively attributable to the tenant’s occupation of a room that is exclusively occupied by the tenant.

            2. Without limiting the generality of subsection (3), the tenant is responsible for the following charges, incurred during the tenancy, in respect of the premises:

            3. electricity and gas supplied to the tenant’s boarding room, if the supply is separately metered for that room:
              1. telephone and Internet connected to the tenant’s boarding room.

                1. If the landlord provides services to a tenant, and payment for those services is not included in the rent, the landlord must provide the tenant each week with an itemised account of the services provided and the amount payable by the tenant.

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                  Notes
                  • Section 66E: inserted, on , by section 49 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 95).