Residential Tenancies Act 1986, ss 24, 66E, 66K, 66U
You must pay your rent on time. Your landlord can give you 48 hours’ notice to move out if you’re 10 days overdue with your rent (see “Ending a boarding house tenancy” in this section).
Your landlord can increase the rent if they give you 28 days’ written notice. But they can’t increase it more than once every 12 months. This means:
Your rent can’t be increased within the first 12 months of your tenancy
after that, your rent can’t be increased until 12 months after the date of the last rent increase.
You have to pay the bills for services that only you use, like electricity and gas (if these are metered separately) and phone and internet connected to your room. The landlord is responsible for paying all other bills – for example, for electricity or gas used in shared areas like communal lounges.