SS · Residential Tenancies Act
Part 6 — General
60 Offences and penalties
(a) section 18, 19(6), 23, 24, 25, 31(13) or (14), 43, 44(1), (3),
(5) or (6), 45, 46(2) or (6), or 47.7 or this Act as described
in section 6(2), or
(b) a provision of the regulations referred to in section 69(1)(b)
or 70(1)(l),
is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not more than $5000.
(1.1) A landlord who fails to give the minimum required period of
notice under section 12 is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of
not more than $10 000.
(2) Where a corporation is convicted of an offence, every officer,
director, employee or agent of the corporation who authorized the
commission of the offence or assented to it or acquiesced or
participated in it is also guilty of an offence and is liable to the
penalty provided for in subsection (1) or (1.1).
(3) A justice who convicts a landlord of contravening section 46(2)
or (6) may, on the application of a tenant who is entitled to all or
part of a security deposit, order the landlord to pay to the tenant the
whole or part of the security deposit together with interest
calculated under section 45.
(4) Where a landlord is convicted of contravening a provision
referred to in subsection (1) or (1.1) and the justice considers that
the landlord has wrongfully withheld prepaid rent paid by the
tenant, the justice may order the landlord to pay all or part of that
prepaid rent to the tenant.
(5) If an amount that is ordered to be paid under subsection (3) or
(4) is not paid within the time ordered by the justice, the tenant or
other person in whose favour the order was made may, by filing the
order, enter as a judgment in the Court of King's Bench the amount
ordered to be paid, and that judgment is enforceable against the
landlord in the same manner as if it were a judgment rendered
against the landlord in the Court of King's Bench in civil
proceedings.
2004 cR-17.1 s60;2007 c11 s1;2015 c20 s7;AR 217/2022