Residential Tenancies Act 1987 No 26
Historical version for 20 June 2006 to 3 December 2006 (accessed 24 May 2013 at 13:42) Repealed version
Part 3Division 1Section 19B

19B   Payment of debts by social housing tenants

It is a term of a social housing tenancy agreement that a tenant under the agreement who incurs or has incurred a debt to the landlord in connection with that agreement or a prior social housing tenancy agreement:
(a)  is to enter into arrangements with the landlord, in accordance with any reasonable request of the landlord, for the payment of that debt, and
(b)  is to comply with those arrangements (including such arrangements entered into during the term of a prior social housing tenancy agreement) and with any variations to those arrangements that may be agreed to by the landlord and tenant.
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