6Short stay premises provider to provide certain information to booking platform provider

6 Short stay premises provider to provide certain information to booking platform provider

(1)  A short stay premises provider must not enter into, with a booking platform provider, a short stay booking service arrangement in relation to short stay premises, unless the short stay premises provider, or an agent of the short stay premises provider, has provided to the booking platform provider the relevant information in relation to the short stay premises*.*

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.

(2)  A short stay premises provider must not authorise an agent to enter into, with a booking platform provider, a short stay booking service arrangement in relation to the short stay premises provider's short stay premises, unless the short stay premises provider –

(a) has provided to the agent the relevant information in relation to the short stay premises; and

(b) has instructed the agent to provide that information to the booking platform provider.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.

(3)  A short stay premises provider must not provide to a booking platform provider, or an agent of the short stay premises provider, information that purports to be the relevant information in relation to the short stay premises provider's short stay premises, if the information is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.

(4)  A person does not commit an offence against subsection (1) , (2) or (3) by failing to comply with the subsection before the end of the transition period.

(5)  If a short stay booking service arrangement that has been entered into before the transition period remains in force after the end of that period, the arrangement is to be taken, for the purposes of subsections (1), (2) and (3), to have been entered into on the day after the end of the transition period.