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Schedule 1: Clauses for rent increases in fixed-term tenancy agreements
or “Rules for including rent increase details in fixed-term tenancy agreements”

You could also call this:

“Fines for breaking renting rules”

This schedule lists the amounts landlords or tenants must pay for different unlawful acts under the Residential Tenancies Act 1986. The amounts range from $350 to $7,200 depending on the violation.

Some examples of unlawful acts include:

  • Landlords discriminating against tenants ($6,500)
  • Landlords failing to provide a written tenancy agreement ($750)
  • Tenants using the property for unlawful purposes ($1,800)
  • Landlords failing to meet health and safety requirements ($7,200)
  • Tenants interfering with other tenants or neighbours ($3,000)

The schedule covers many aspects of the landlord-tenant relationship, including bond payments, rent, maintenance, privacy, and proper notice for entering the property. Both landlords and tenants can be fined for violating the rules set out in the Act.

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Next up: Schedule 1B: Fines and fees for infringement offences

or “List of fines and fees for breaking tenancy rules”

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1AAmounts for unlawful acts

The following table is medium in size and has 3 columns. Column 1 is headed Section. Column 2 is headed Description of unlawful act. Column 3 is headed Amount ($).
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Section Description of unlawful act Amount
($)
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 bond greater than amount permitted 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
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(3) 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
  • Schedule 1A: amended, on , by section 79(2) of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 59).