16NMiscellaneous provisions

16N Miscellaneous provisions

16N Miscellaneous provisions

(1) If the Secretary is required to pay out an amount of money to a person under this Part, the Secretary may, instead of paying out the money to that person, pay out or apply the money in accordance with that person’s directions.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, a court or the Tribunal is authorised to issue—

(a) a copy of any entry of a judgment or a copy of an order, in each case certified by the proper officer to be a true copy of the entry or order, and

(b) where proceedings have been discontinued, a certificate to that effect signed by the proper officer.

(3) If a mediation of a retail tenancy dispute about a security bond is successful, the mediator or the Registrar may issue a certificate setting out the resulting agreement.

Note.

The certificate may be used for the purposes of section 16I.

(4) No claim other than a claim provided in this Part lies against the Secretary in respect of security bonds deposited with the Secretary.

(5) This Part applies notwithstanding the terms of any agreement, any rule of law or the provisions of any other Act.

s 16N: Ins 2005 No 90, Sch 1 [22]. Am 2017 No 2, Sch 1 [29].