1AAmounts for unlawful acts Empowered by s 109(4)
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section | Description of unlawful act |
Amount
($) |
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| 12(1) | Unlawful discrimination | 6,500 | ||
| 13(4) | Landlord failing to ensure tenancy agreement in writing, signed, and provided to tenant | 750 | ||
| 13A(1AAA) | Landlord failing to ensure tenancy agreement includes certain information specified in section 13A(1) | 750 | ||
| 13A(1F)(a) | Landlord failing to comply with section 13A(1A), (1CA), (1CB), (2), (3), or (4) | 750 | ||
| 13A(1F)(b) | Landlord providing false or misleading statement or information under section 13A(1A), (1CA), (1CB), (2), (3), or (4) | 900 | ||
| 15(2) | Successor landlord or tenant failing to give notice | 750 | ||
| 16(2) | Failing to notify change of name or address | 750 | ||
| 16A(6) | Landlord failing to appoint agent when outside New Zealand for longer than 21 consecutive days | 1,500 | ||
| 17(3) | Requiring key money | 1,500 | ||
| 17A(3) | Requiring letting fee | 1,500 | ||
| 18(4)(a) | Landlord requiring general bond greater than amount permitted | 1,500 | ||
| 18AA(5) | Landlord requiring pet bond greater than amount permitted or from tenant who is not keeping, or does not intend to keep, a pet | 1,500 | ||
| 18A(2)(a) | Landlord requiring unauthorised form of security | 1,500 | ||
| 19(2) | Breaching duties on receipt of bond | 1,500 | ||
| 22F(3)(a) | Landlord failing to state amount of rent when offering tenancy | 1,500 | ||
| 22G(3) | Landlord inviting or encouraging bids for rent | 1,500 | ||
| 23(4)(a) | Landlord requiring rent more than 2 weeks in advance or before rent already paid expires | 1,500 | ||
| 27(2) | Landlord requiring rent in excess of market rent order | 350 | ||
| 29(5) | Failing to give receipt for rent | 350 | ||
| 30(2)(a) | Landlord failing to keep records | 350 | ||
| 33(2) | Landlord seizing or disposing of tenant’s goods | 3,000 | ||
| 38(3) | Interference with privacy of tenant | 3,000 | ||
| 40(3A)(a) | Tenant failing, without reasonable excuse, to quit premises upon termination | 1,500 | ||
| 40(3A)(b) | Tenant’s interference, etc, with means of escape from fire | 4,000 | ||
| 40(3A)(c) | Tenant using or permitting premises to be used for unlawful purpose | 1,800 | ||
| 40(3A)(d) | Tenant’s harassment of other tenant or neighbour | 3,000 | ||
| 40(3A)(e) | Tenant failing to ensure number of residents does not exceed maximum allowed | 1,000 | ||
| 42A(7) | Landlord failing to respond to written request seeking consent for fixtures, etc | 1,500 | ||
| 42B(3) | Landlord failing to consent to request for minor change | 1,500 | ||
| 42B(6) | Tenant failing to reinstate premises at end of tenancy following minor change | 1,500 | ||
| 42C(2) | Tenant keeping pet without provision in tenancy agreement or landlord’s consent to keep pet | 750 | ||
| 42D(3) | Landlord including prohibition on tenant keeping pet in tenancy agreement without providing reasonable grounds in agreement for prohibition | 1,500 | ||
| 42E(5) | Landlord failing, without reasonable excuse, to provide written notice in response to tenant’s request for consent to keep pet within 21 days of receiving request | 1,500 | ||
| 42E(6) | Landlord refusing consent without reasonable grounds | 1,500 | ||
| 43B(3) | Tenant assigning tenancy without the landlord’s written consent or when prohibited to do so | 750 | ||
| 43B(5) | Landlord failing to respond to written request for consent to assignment | 1,500 | ||
| 44(2A) | Tenant subletting or parting with possession when prohibited to do so or without the landlord’s written consent | 1,500 | ||
| 44A(3)(a) | Landlord failing to itemise expenses incurred on assignment, subletting, parting with possession, or termination by consent | 750 | ||
| 45(1A) | Landlord failing to meet obligations in respect of cleanliness, maintenance, smoke alarms, the healthy homes standards, or buildings, health, and safety requirements | 7,200 | ||
| 45(1AB) | Landlord providing premises, or continuing to provide premises, despite landlord’s knowledge of contamination of premises | 4,000 | ||
| 45(1AD)(a) | Landlord failing to provide healthy homes information | 750 | ||
| 45(2A) | Landlord interfering with supply of services to premises | 1,800 | ||
| 45(2D) | Landlord failing to meet obligations to provide insurance policy or to correct information provided | 900 | ||
| 45B(6) | Landlord failing to take all reasonable steps to facilitate installation of fibre connection or to respond to request | 1,500 | ||
| 46(3) | Landlord failing to provide locks or landlord or tenant altering locks without consent of other party | 1,500 | ||
| 47(3) | Landlord failing to give notice that premises are on the market | 1,800 | ||
| 48(4)(a) | Unlawful entry by landlord | 1,500 | ||
| 48(4)(b) | Tenant failing to allow landlord to enter upon premises in circumstances where landlord entitled to enter | 1,500 | ||
| 48(4)(c) | Landlord failing to notify tenant of results of contamination test | 1,000 | ||
| 49D | Unlawful acts of landlord related to tenant’s liability under section 49B | 1,800 | ||
| 54(6) | Landlord giving retaliatory notice of termination | 6,500 | ||
| 56E(3) | Disclosing notice of withdrawal or accompanying qualifying evidence of family violence | 3,000 | ||
| 60AA | Landlord acting to terminate tenancy without grounds | 6,500 | ||
| 61(5) | Tenant abandoning premises without reasonable excuse | 1,500 | ||
| 66G(4) | Harassment of tenant in boarding house | 3,000 | ||
| 66I(4) | Landlord of boarding house failing to meet obligations in respect of cleanliness, maintenance, smoke alarms, the healthy homes standards, or buildings, health, and safety requirements | 7,200 | ||
| 66I(5) | Landlord of boarding house providing, or continuing to provide, boarding room despite landlord’s knowledge of contamination of boarding room or facilities | 4,000 | ||
| 66I(7) | Landlord failing to provide healthy homes information | 750 | ||
| 66J(2B) | Landlord of boarding house interfering with services or failing to advise that premises on market | 1,800 | ||
| 66J(4) | Landlord of boarding house failing to notify results of contamination test (relating to boarding house facilities) | 1,000 | ||
| 66J(7) | Landlord of boarding house failing to meet obligations to provide insurance policy or to correct information provided | 900 | ||
| 66K(4)(a) | Tenant of boarding house interfering, etc, with means of escape from fire | 4,000 | ||
| 66K(4)(b) | Tenant using or permitting boarding room to be used for unlawful purposes | 1,500 | ||
| 66K(4)(c) | Tenant of boarding house harassing neighbour | 3,000 | ||
| 66P(4) | Landlord of boarding house failing to comply with order relating to house rules | 3,000 | ||
| 66T(1)(a) to (c) | Contraventions relating to entry, or attempted entry, of tenant’s boarding room | 1,500 | ||
| 66T(1)(d) | Landlord of boarding house failing to notify results of contamination test (relating to boarding room) | 1,000 | ||
| 66X(5) | Tenant of boarding house abandoning premises without reasonable excuse | 1,500 | ||
| 108(2A) | Breach of work order (other than section 78A work order) | 5,000 | ||
| 108(2A) | Landlord breaching section 78A work order | 5,000 | ||
| 123A(5)(a) | Landlord failing to produce documents to chief executive | 1,500 | ||
| 126J(1) | Failing to comply with improvement notice | 3,000 | ||
| 126P(2) | Breaching an enforceable undertaking | 1,000 | ||
| 137(2) | Contracting to contravene or evade the provisions of this Act | 1,800 |
Notes