C79

Prospective affecting provision: section inserted by Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 (42/2015), s. 61, not commenced as of date of revision.

F261[135B. (1) Where a notice under section 135(4B) is sent to a landlord and he or she does not transmit the deposit concerned or furnish the statement concerned within the period specified in that notice, the Board shall serve a further notice on the landlord stating that he or she is required to transmit the deposit concerned or furnish the notice concerned to the Board within 14 days of receipt by him or her of the further notice under this section and that where he or she fails to do so within that period, he or she is guilty of an offence.

(2) A person who fails to comply with the further notice under subsection (1) is guilty of an offence.

(3) It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (2) for the person to show that he or she took all reasonable steps to comply with subsection (1).]