You must pay any amount owed to the chief executive using a payment method they approve. The chief executive decides which payment methods are approved. You can find more information about this in the Residential Tenancies Act 1986, which was amended by the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 1996 and the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2024.
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134: Waiver by landlord of breach by tenant, or
"If a landlord lets a tenant break a rule once, they can still enforce it later, but the Tenancy Tribunal might consider this if the landlord wants to end the tenancy."
135: Recovery of money paid by mistake, or
"If you pay money by mistake in a tenancy, you can ask to get it back, but sometimes you might not get all of it."
Any amount that is, by virtue of any provision of this Act or of any order of the Tribunal, to be paid to the chief executive must be paid using a payment method approved by the chief executive.
