TENANCY BILL HAS NO RELIEF FOR SOME PROPERTIES
Regret that the Tenanacy Amendment Bill now before the House of Representatives proposed no relief for owners of business property was expressed by a land agent when he was questioned on the effect of the amending legislation. The existing law had been unjust in many respects to owners who had let dwellings, but it had been even more unjust to owners of city property and the new Bill, in its present form, disregarded those injustices, he said. A working man living in a rented house, with no knowledge of Jiis legal rights and financially barred from consulting a lawyer, needed protection to guard against a sharp landlord or his legal representative, but the general run of shopkeeper was shrewd in his own right, he commented.
In recent years the goodwill payable on shop purchases had risen fantastically, but rents had stayed the same. The law would not allow the landlord to increase his refit while his tenants were making a profit of thousands for a small outlay in rental. The landlord by law could not even accept a voluntary offer from a fair tenant to raise the rental.
He considered that something should have been done to diminish the privileged position of a tenant of a business premises and remove some of the injustices under which the landlord suffered.
Discussing private properties, he agreed that a loosening of the controls governing the relationship of tenant and landlord would lead to a general freeing of the property market. Tenants had traded on their protection under the present law in a number of ways. New buyers of tenanted houses had discovered to their cost that written guarantees by tenants that they would vacate were worth no more than the paper they were written on, and other tenants had sub-let rooms at more than the legal rent of the house itself.
These aspects demanded attention, he added, but the Government should be cautious in its methods of dealing with them.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 76, 31 July 1950, Page 7
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