Division 2 — Other Specific Terms in a Tenancy Agreement
Landlord may require security deposit
17 A landlord may require, in accordance with this Act and the regulations, a tenant to pay a security deposit as a condition of entering into a tenancy agreement or as a term of a tenancy agreement.
Terms respecting pets and pet damage deposits
18 (1) A tenancy agreement may include terms or conditions doing either or both of the following:
(a) prohibiting pets, or restricting the size, kind or number of pets a tenant may keep on the residential property;
(b) governing a tenant's obligations in respect of keeping a pet on the residential property.
(2) If, after January 1, 2004, a landlord permits a tenant to keep a pet on the residential property, the landlord may require the tenant to pay a pet damage deposit in accordance with sections 19
[limits on amount of deposits] and 20
[landlord prohibitions respecting deposits].
Guide Dog and Service Dog Act.
Limits on amount of deposits
19 (1) A landlord must not require or accept either a security deposit or a pet damage deposit that is greater than the equivalent of 1/2 of one month's rent payable under the tenancy agreement.
(2) If a landlord accepts a security deposit or a pet damage deposit that is greater than the amount permitted under subsection (1), the tenant may deduct the overpayment from rent or otherwise recover the overpayment.
Landlord prohibitions respecting deposits
20 A landlord must not do any of the following:
(a) require a security deposit at any time other than when the landlord and tenant enter into the tenancy agreement;
(b) require or accept more than one security deposit in respect of a tenancy agreement;
(c) require a pet damage deposit at any time other than
(i) when the landlord and tenant enter into the tenancy agreement, or
(ii) if the tenant acquires a pet during the term of a tenancy agreement, when the landlord agrees that the tenant may keep the pet on the residential property;
(d) require or accept more than one pet damage deposit in respect of a tenancy agreement, irrespective of the number of pets the landlord agrees the tenant may keep on the residential property;
(e) require, or include as a term of a tenancy agreement, that the landlord automatically keeps all or part of the security deposit or the pet damage deposit at the end of the tenancy agreement.
Tenant prohibition respecting deposits
21 Unless the landlord gives written consent, a tenant must not apply a security deposit or a pet damage deposit as rent.
Acceleration term prohibited
22 A tenancy agreement must not include a term that all or part of the rent payable for the remainder of the period of the tenancy agreement becomes due and payable if a term of the tenancy agreement is breached.