Residential Tenancies Act 2004

Offence for failure to comply with determination order.

126.—(1) A person who fails to comply with one or more terms of a determination order is guilty of an offence.

(2) Subsection (1) has effect notwithstanding the means provided under section 124 for enforcement of a determination order.

(3) A person convicted of an offence under this section shall not be sentenced to any term of imprisonment in respect of that offence if he or she shows that the failure to comply with the term or terms concerned was due to his or her limited financial means.