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Payment of rent
By Wm. F. Watson
It is a material term of every tenancy agreement that the tenant is to pay the rent on time unless the tenant is permitted under the Act to deduct from the rent. If the rent is unpaid, the landlord may issue a notice to end a tenancy to the tenant, which may take effect not earlier than 10 days after the date the tenant receives the notice.
The landlord must not take away or make the tenant pay extra for a service or facility that is already included in the rent, unless a reduction is made under section 27 (2) of the Act, which is the provision that the landlord must give at least 30 day’s written notice on approved forms that he is withdrawing or reducing a non-essential service or facility. The landlord must also reduce the rent in an amount equivalent to the reduction in value of the service or facility.
If the tenant pays the rent in cash, the landlord must give the tenant a receipt.
The landlord must return to the tenant on or before the last day of the tenancy any post-dated cheques for rent that remain in the possession of the landlord. If the landlord does not have a forwarding address for the tenant and the tenant has vacated the premises without notice to the landlord, the landlord must forward any post-dated cheques for rent to the tenant when the tenant provides a forwarding address in writing.
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