VIC: Residential Tenancies Act Section 206ZH Site owner must not seek overpayment for utility charge

Site owner must not seek overpayment for utility charges

(1) A site owner must not seek payment or reimbursement for a cost or charge under section 206ZG that is more than the amount that the relevant supplier of the utility would have charged the site tenant. Penalty: 60 penalty units.

(2) If the relevant supplier of the utility has issued an account of utility charges to the site owner, any amount to be recovered from the site tenant for the account must be adjusted by deducting any concession or rebate to which the site tenant is entitled.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the concession or rebate—

(a) must be claimed by the site tenant and the site owner has given the site tenant the opportunity to claim it and the site tenant does not do so by the payment date set by the relevant supplier of the utility; or

(b) is paid directly to the site tenant as a refund.