PO-2225

The Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal (the Tribunal) is set up under the Tenant Protection Act, 1997 (the TPA) and has exclusive jurisdiction to determine all applications under the TPA (section 157). During the course of its application proceedings, the Tribunal may require parties to pay money to the Tribunal on account of fees, fines or costs. If an applicant owes money to the Tribunal for any of these reasons, the Tribunal may refuse to allow the application to be heard or discontinue the application (section 182.1 of the TPA and Rule 29 of the Tribunal's Rules of Practice and Procedure under the TPA and the Statutory Powers Procedure Act (the Rules)).

The Tribunal generates two reports from its databases to identify individuals or corporations who owe money to the Tribunal. These reports are named:

• The Accounts Receivable Report
• The Outstanding Debt List

The Accounts Receivable Report is used by the Tribunal's Financial Officers to identify who owes a debt to the Tribunal. The Financial Officer flags the names of the debtors and the computer issues a warning to Tribunal staff if a debtor attempts to file a new application with the Tribunal.

Because there are some instances where the computer does not accurately identify a debtor, Tribunal staff use the Outstanding Debt List to verify and confirm whether an applicant owes money to the Tribunal.

• FIPPA
• 2(1)

• business/personal information
• personal/professional differentiation