Refusal to Assign (Administrative Fee)

General, O Reg 516/06

17. The following payments are exempt from subsections 134 (1) and (3) of the Act:

1. Payment for additional keys, remote entry devices or cards requested by the tenant, not greater than the direct costs.

2. Payment for replacement keys, remote entry devices or cards, not greater than the direct replacement costs, unless the replacement keys, remote entry devices or cards are required because the landlord, on the landlord’s initiative, changed the locks.

3. Payment of a refundable key, remote entry device or card deposit, not greater than the expected direct replacement costs.

4. Payment of NSF charges charged by a financial institution to the landlord.

5. Payment of an administration charge, not greater than $20, for an NSF cheque.

6. Payment by a tenant, former tenant, subtenant or former subtenant in settlement of a court action or potential court action or an application or potential application to the Board.

7. Payment to a landlord or tenant of a mobile home park or land lease community at the commencement of a tenancy as consideration for the rental of a particular site.

8. Payment of a charge not exceeding $250 for transferring, at the request of the tenant,

i. between rental units to which subsection 6 (1) or (3) of this Regulation applies, if the rental units are located in the same residential complex, or

ii. between rental units in a residential complex that is described in paragraph 1, 2, 3 or 4 of subsection 7 (1) of the Act.

9. Payment of an amount to reimburse the landlord for property taxes paid by the landlord with respect to a mobile home or a land lease home owned by the tenant. O. Reg. 516/06, s. 17; O. Reg. 562/17, s. 1.