PHOTO: John Bisset/Stuff – Landlords can be fined up to $4000 for not installing smoke alarms.
An Auckland landlord has been fined $2000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment successfully took Arie Peter Sterk to the Tenancy Tribunal for the breach last week.
Sterk has also been restrained from committing the same offence for six years, or will face further legal action.
Steve Watson, MBIE’s national manager of the tenancy compliance and investigation team, said it served as a reminder to all landlords that failing to comply with tenancy laws would not be tolerated.
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